Analysis Services 2008 R2 - Compressed Backup and CPU Usage
I have a weekly backup job running on my SSAS instance. This uses compression for improved disk performance and reduced storage requirements, but at the expense of CPU. Backup duration is not a major...
View ArticleAbout creating custom calculated dimension
Hello,Is there a way to create custom calculated dimension ?For example: I want to do somethink like that,Amount 2011 2012 2013 (Calculated) [2012]/[2011] , Calculated [2013,2012]Material Name Coca...
View ArticleSSAS Calculated Members
Hi to all.I have a cube SSAS 2008 R2 ..In Calculation Tab i have a measure called i.e XYZ that is a number.In the properties i choose [b]FORMAT STRING --- standard [/b](I am not interested in CURRENCY...
View ArticleSQL OR with MDX
I have a Measure called Supplier Number in the cube. The Supplier table acts as a Dimension as well as Fact table in the Cube. There are two dimensions - CreationDate and Modification date that are...
View ArticleCombine two measures with two common dimension plus time
Hi folks,It was difficult to select the appropriate title for my question.[b]Background:[/b] The business analyst specify the following report (this is the simplified...
View ArticleHow to avoid a proliferation of cubes
We're just starting to dig into cubes and BI work. One of my DBA colleages is very concerned about developers randomly creating cubes off the production databases instead of creating an Enterprise Data...
View ArticleSSAS 2012 Cube Processing options and Performance
Hi,I have an SSIS package which has a step that processes a Cube with Process Full option and Sequential Single Transaction settings. My question is that when the cube is processed this way, does it...
View ArticleNumeric Dimension Attribute in SSAS 2008 R2
Good evening to all.I use SSAS 2008 R2 and i did some cubes.I built a dimension PRODUCT that contains 2 numeric attributes...PRICE WITH TAXES and PRICE WITHOUT TAXESBoth attributes are numeric (deci...
View ArticleReverse Engineering Cube to create a project/solution file
Hello experts, Is there a way to reverse engineer an existing cube to create a project file? I inherited a cube recently and I'm surprised that no one has the project file. Any help and guidance is...
View ArticleDAX query to figure out the latest hour that's loaded into Tabular cube for...
Hi guys,We have a tabular cube set up, which has a date dimension and an hour dimension, along with a few others, and a simple count fact measure.So for every day, the hour dimension would just be 00...
View ArticleSimple calculation doesnot evaluate
HiI am trying to prevent values for my "All" member to be shown in the cube when slicing on 2 exchange hiearchies. The statement works separatly, but together with the "or" I am missing all values when...
View ArticleTraining kits for MCTS 70-466 and MCTS 70-467
I want to appear in test below. MCTS 70-466 (Implementing Data Models and Reports with Microsoft SQL Server 2012)MCTS 70-467 (Designing Business Intelligence Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server...
View ArticleCalculated member problem -> to show Full year data for each month
Hi,I do have a following problem:Time dimension with hierarchy [Time].[Year - Month] with levels Year and Month and some measures.For example calculated measure YTD:CREATE MEMBER...
View ArticleUnknown Member & Null Processing
HiForgive me - this is probably a very basic question. I have followed Kimball methodology by including an unknown member in each dimension in the relational database. In the case of a time dimension I...
View Articleoffice 2010 performace issue with xls using SSAS 2005
we are facing a strange behaviour of MS Excel files with SSAS 2005.We have some xls files with cube connections with some macros. we have recently updated our office pack from 2003 to 2010(32 bit) and...
View ArticleMDX Query using a date range
Hi All. Yet another newbie to SSAS here.I'm trying to write a query which select data about financial transactions. The requirement is to select the the last 3 years. (Current year and 2 previous)....
View ArticleBuilding a Data Mart with an Inmon’s architecture for SSAS cubes
Hi folks,My questions today are about basic design of a Data Warehouse Solution.In my organization a Data Warehouse using the Inmon’s approach was implemented. That’s means, we have a big highly...
View ArticleCreating Aggregations Post Deployment of Cube ?
Hi Friends,Is there a possibility to create Aggregations after the Cube has been deployed. I recollect that I have read something along these lines but can't recollect it in entirety.Googling didn't...
View ArticleWriteBack Weighted Allocation doesn't work properly
I have an issue about weighted allocation. I'm trying to allocate on leafs of a user defined hierarchy which has the dimension key on the leaf level. The allocation have to be done based on the rolling...
View ArticleSSAS Service wont start
After installation my SSAS service wont start. Initially i was trying to start it with an account created primarily for SSAS. But when it couldnt find the "CryptKey.bin" i started it with my own AD...
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