changing between storage modes - redesign queries needed?
Last week I received an interesting question : does changing the storage mode lead to a redesign of the MDX queries?Although not all storage modes might support all MDX-constructs - esp. rolap - in...
View ArticlePerformancePoint 2010 sample Dashboards
Hi Guys,Need some help on this; basically I need to give a client demo on SharePoint 2010 PerformancePoint Services to give a feel of the dashboards and its drill down capabilities. Since I am running...
View ArticleMDX to return the value of children for a specific type of parent
Hi,I need to create an MDX query to return the value of a measure associated to the children of a specific parent type.In My cube I´ve a dimension with a Parent-Child hierachy and with a Type attribute...
View ArticleThe '' secondary data source is not a relational data source, or does not use...
Hi,We are using Teradata as data source in SSAS 2008R2, it’s using ‘.Net Providers\.Net Data Provider for Teradata’. In DSV, we have two data sources both using Teradata. While processing dimensions,...
View ArticleMDX help : is it possible to retrieve only one data when there is duplicate...
Hi Allat a particular point of time the data is dulpicatating in 2 partitions . when we get the value of the mesure at that time we are getting sum .is it possible to retrieve Max value instead of sum...
View ArticleMDX to get set of Daterange,Dayrange and counts on specific dates
Hi I have requirement in MDX . In short trying to get count of records datewise for date range bucketJust to give small idea on the model My fact table act as dimension as well. Its having 4 date...
View ArticleColor expression in Calculated member
I have a calculated member that returns % I would like to put a color expressions that change the color to RED if it is a negative % and if it is a positive percentage then BLUE.How can I do this?
View ArticleMDX : Generate() & String concatenation
Hi Everyone,I'm actually trying to concatenate member names together but I can't achieve what I've in mind.Looks like the use of GENERATE() is the way to go but I didn't succeed using it.For example, I...
View ArticleMeasure Level Security and Calculations
I'm working on implementing measure level security and am looking for a simple way to implement it. I've created a role called "Project Managers", and have made a domain group a member of the role.I've...
View ArticleLastChild Aggregation Function vs Sum and ClosingPeriod() Combination
The Semiadditive aggregation functions like LastChild are a bit new to me.After reading about the semiadditive LastChild aggregations in blogs and in the SSAS performance guide...
View ArticleUsing 2012 Analysis Services Tabular Model Perspectives, I get the message No...
I created several Perspectives, using SQL 2012 Tabular. I have 2 problems:I expected the behavior of how I would work with the perspectives to mirror conventional analysis services. For instance when...
View ArticleCube Processing fails after moving to new DataDir
The disk where our SSAS cubes are located on will disappear so I wanted to copy the full SSAS environment to a new location. This is what I did:1. Change DataDir/LogDir/BackupDir and TempDir in SSAS...
View ArticleDeploy to different environments using SSIS
Hi,I have different SSAS environments(dev,test,production), Now I would like to deploy(using an automatic script) the SSAS databases to the different environment with the following in mind:A lot of...
View ArticleMDX for records between date range where start and end date being separate...
Hi .. need help in this Is it possible to write in MDX to extract records between two dates …. where start and end date are 2 diff columns in the same table Like if I write in SQL...
View ArticleMDX Performance Issue
We use the below MDX code to do the Audit calculations but it's performing very poorly, Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!! Currently this query takes 3 mins on a server and it's quite...
View ArticleSSAS 2012 Tabular. Import datasource from MySQL
I am trying to import data into a model from MySQl. I can at least connect to MySQL and see the table names through the odbc drivers from MySQL but when I try to preview and filter the data or...
View ArticleMDX Issue: Return different value based on attribute member.
Hi, I am facing a problem where my MDX skill just isn't sufficient.I am trying to create an overview of the projects in our company. For each project there can be multiple tasks and I have build a...
View ArticleDimesion modeling for parent child
I have a table (Accounts) that holds account data and accounts can have parent accounts, child accounts..etc. But the table uses Nested Set model instead of the adjacency list model (parent id and id...
View Articlelocks mitigation -- processing jobs vs querying sessions -- how to
hello all,I have a pretty complex AS Database, with many dimensions (over 100), measure groups (over 20), distinct counts (over 20), a complex mdx script, etc, many processing/updates throughout the...
View ArticleModifying query results (small number suppression)
I have a project for which there is a contractual requirement to suppress data that could lead to identification of an individual person. The requirement is conceptually quite simple - If the data...
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