Recommendation for SSAS 2012 book
I'm looking for a good 2012 SSAS book. We're getting into BI work and have started building cubes off of log shipped or replicated production OLTP data. I'm a DBA and need to manage cube deployment....
View ArticleFloor Function in MDX
Hi All,Is there any function like Floor function in MDX.Ex: 1) value is 1.9 then output is 1 2) value is 1.1 then output is 1 3) value is 0.4 then output is 0 4) value is 0.5 then output is 0my aim is...
View ArticleMDX- How to custom Format_String in a calculated measure
Hi to all of you.I read it is possibile customize FORMAT_STRING of a calculated measureI use SSAS 2008 R2 and inside my project's cube , i tried this expression:[b]CREATE MEMBER...
View ArticleSSAS vs Views
I have a challenge at work to determine whether the additional layer of SSAS will be worth the effort for our organization. What can you do in an SSAS cube that you cannot do with a sql query (or set...
View ArticleSSAS : Date dimension issue with future years
Hello,The issue is wether to fill the date dimension with 5 years in advance can be an issue for the queries.In fact, the previous team on the project, processes the date dimension everytime we add...
View ArticleHELP with SSAS cube
Hi, am a complete novice with SSAS....our SSAS guy is out on vacation and I have request of promoting a SSAS CUBE...I have no idea what they are talking...but all they need is someone to promote the...
View ArticleFact Table Measure Data Types (Float vs Decimal)
This is from "Expert Cube Development with SSAS Multidimensional Models" (Webb, Chris; Ferrari, Alberto; Russo, Marco)[quote]When we design data marts, we need to be aware that Analysis Services does...
View ArticleAnalysis Services Properties Item has already been added. Key in dictionary:...
Hi,I'm facing the following problem. When I'm trying to open SSAS 2005 properties I have this error, the same in 2008: TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio------------------------------ Cannot...
View ArticleExcel not connecting to SSAS Cubes
I have run into an interesting problem today in regard to our cubes. Excel is no longer able to connect to SSAS. I get a the error "Cannot connect to the server "#######". The server is either not...
View ArticleUSE MDX Query without using Linked Server- OpenQuery
Using Linked Server the query is taking too long to retrieve data. Is there any alternative way to hitthe OLAP Cube. So that I can write directly a storedProcedure and retrieve the data directly from...
View ArticleANN: SSAS Activity Monitor 1.0 released
Hi All.I hope notifications about new tools is not against rules here and I'd like to just notify that we released for testing new SSAS tool - [b]SSAS Activity Monitor[/b].What are happen behind the...
View ArticleCalculations Based of Customers Start Date
Good Day.I am very new to MDX and been thrown in the deep end, what I am trying to accomplish is to calculate the age in days of each customer since the customer last purchase date, as well as sum all...
View ArticleLearn SSAS
Dear all, I want to learn SSAS and to be very honest i am at zero level in it. So can any one help me good books which have good examples and help in learning SSAS...Or if there are any good videos...
View ArticleDimension fails to process (Full) - The query could not start the neccessary...
Hi all,I have a dimension in my cube and currently every time I process it it fails onOLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: The query processor could not start the necessary thread resources for parallel...
View Articleslow performance SSAS 2012 with powerview and sharepoint 2013
Powerview is running extremely slow when filtering reports in SharePoint 2013.The Powerview reports that reside in SharePoint 2013 are connected directly to a tabular cube on Analysis services. When...
View ArticleAnalysis Services Cube used in Report. Data showing differently in Reporting...
Hi,im having real issued at the moment. I am using my cube to create reports from in reporting Services. And publishing the report to the reports server but the data is slightly different on the...
View ArticleMonth Attribute showing Repeating data items when browsing the dimension
Hi,im a little confused to say the least.I have a date time dimension. in it Ive got Financial Month and Financial Year.I have set up the key to beFinancial YearFinancial MonthBut when i browse the...
View ArticleDrill Down from Financial Month to Financial Month Not working - An attempt...
Using an Analysis Services cube as my data sourceI have a Financial Year Hierarchy - Financial year to Financial Month which works well. My Attributes weren’t working properly and were showing multiple...
View ArticleBest practices for UnkownMember
Hi everyone,I read everywhere that it's best to fix the fact tables' foreign keys that can't be found in the dimension tables in the data warehouse by setting it to -1 for instance and by creating an...
View ArticleCustom Aggregations (Measuring Headcount Attrition).
Hello,I've got a measure, headcount attrition, that I'm not sure how to aggregate in a cube. Here's some example data, assume the time for all these is January...
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