SSAS 2005-2008 R2-2012 -Deployment ERROR
Hi to all of you.I work with SSAS 2008R2 and before with SSAS 2005.Next days i will work with SSAS 2012 Multidimensional...A problem i encountered a lot of time is to recevine an error when i do some...
View ArticleDynamic Security for dimensional members?
Ok so here's the problem.I have a corporate BFC (big fat cube) which some 20 different services access and within that several hundred employees. I want to employ 4 stage security, ie, for each...
View ArticleMDX FLOW
Hi friends, I'm new to mdx . anyone please explain the flow of this or any simple mdx expression.so that i can get some idea about mdx expressions.EXPRESSION:WITH SET [top subcategories for internet...
View ArticleProcessing of an Cube kills the service
Hi,Im very new to OLAP, so be nice :-)Version 9.00.1399.06Windows 2003We have a cube the for some reseaon refuses to work. It dies after arount 30 minutes. This is the error:The trace has been stopped....
View ArticleExcel Pivot Table Drill down from Cube - no measures
I cannot seem to edit the subject, but it should be:[b]Excel Pivot Table Drill THROUGH from cube - no DIMENSIONS[/b]I have a cube I access from Excel 2010. I used to be able to double click on a count...
View Articleperf. drop when switching from 64bit dev. to 32bit standard
With existing customers working with a lot of 32bit 2003 servers I took our test (64bit ; dev. edition) SSAS database and restored this on 32bit standard edition.Processing went from 2 to 59 seconds,...
View ArticleCan we detach and attach cube partitions in SSAS?
Hi, just wonder if this is feasible. I have been using Qlikview and very like the way they slice cube data. You can save the fact data by snapshot date and save them into individual files. But I do not...
View ArticleCreating an MDX Set available to Excel for last 3 months
Hello,I've created a Set that returns the previous 3 months in a dimension and I can successfully use it (i.e. I get the previous 3 months displayed individually), see below:Create Set...
View ArticleMDX: Why is MDX so much slower than getting the ALL data from the cube?
I have a pivot grid attached to the cube. The cube has 7 million records and shows all our content really fastThe MDX below produces 217,000 records in 29 seconds (way too slow). Much slower then...
View ArticleCube Demension design implemented correctly?
I'm creating my first cube.I have a design where I need to add in a [b]line of business[/b] demension.I am not sure if I'm going about this correctly. As I understand it, I should remove all normal...
View ArticleSTRTOSET - Constrained
I am running into the following error -restrictions imposed by the CONSTRAINED flag in the STRTOSET function were violatedI receive this error when using select all in a report using a datacube. The...
View ArticleData Source table Name changed. Now Dimension Needs connecting to this new table
Hi,I have renamed a table in the data source (Id accidentally deleted it first)Now when I go into the actual dimension I get 'The key column refers to an unknown table'It looks like I have to connect...
View ArticleDeply aggregations
Hi,I'm using SQL server 2008 R2.Monthly a job creates new 'month' partitions. So this partitions are not in my BIDS project.Now I have created some 'usage based aggregations', and want to deloy them.My...
View ArticleChange to Dimension ID and Fact ID from Varchar to Int. Need to sort in...
In an attempt to get something done quick I made a blunder and my Age dimesnion IDwas varchar along with the fact table.I managed to sort it out and they are now both int.However Im getting the...
View ArticleHave Age dimension. Try to process and it says it doesnt exist
Lots of issues to work through but I have an age dimension Age_By_Calendard_Year is its name. I try and process and get the message 'The age By calendar Year Dimension was not found on the server.Its...
View Articlemulti lingual capacity enterprise vs standard edition
Our SSAS pilot was started using the fully-fledged developer's edition where we added 2 additional languages. We tested the testcube on a standard edition , opening the project in 2008R2 BIDS. All...
View ArticleHow do you service your Cubes if using dynamic partitioning
Hi there,I am thinking about using partitioning as a tool to reduce our cube processing time.While I was thinking about dynamicly adding new partitions over xmla I thought: What if I have to change...
View ArticleMeasure between dates in Dimension ( SSAS )
I have a data warehouse with the following dimensions ( say ) 1.Dim Time 2.DimensionX and a Fact table The sample design as follows DimensionX ( Key, Name, Start Date , End Date ) - This is related to...
View ArticleWhy is the results take longer in MDX than TSQL?
Can anyone tell me why this simple MDX query takes 9 seconds and TSQL takes 5 seconds?-------------------- MDX ------------------------------- select null on 0, {[Dim Geographic].[STATECODE].children *...
View ArticleMeasure between dates
I have a campaign dimension ( Its a marketing campaign for a product ) and i have to measure the sales that happened during the campaign , Each campaign will have a duration ( start date and end date )...
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