Designing Datamarts
Hello,Does anyone have any good links to the various approaches of designing datamarts (star schema etc.)?Thanks in advance for your help.ajroney
View ArticleMDX parallelperiod
I am using the adventureworks 2008dw and cube, What I am trying to accomplish is getting the sales amount for the last period also, example I want sales for Jan 2007 and Jan 2006 and so on for all the...
View ArticleLinked server to SSAS performance overhead
Hi, We are currently using a combination of SQL Server relational tables and values coming from an SSAS database. The results coming from the SSAS db are being joined with tables to produce the final...
View ArticleA duplicate attribute key has been found
I am trying to process Customer dimension form AdventureWorksDW2012 database and getting following error.Errors in the OLAP storage engine: A duplicate attribute key has been found when processing:...
View ArticleSQL server Analysis Service
SQL server analysis services changes to Manual(From Automatic) whenever Windows patching is applied.Its clustered server.Can someone help me with this issue.thank you,Ruchitha
View ArticleROLAP Cube on SQL Server 2012 accessing DB2 with named queries
Hello,as the title suggests i am trying to build a ROLAP Cube on the SQL Server 2012. This Cube is accessing DB2 tables with named queries. So far it is working fine as i managed to deploy the cube and...
View Articleneed help with calculated measure
Hi,there is a fact table which has all employee shift records. I want to see the number of employee who have less than average 3 shifts per week for given periods (month, year). I have calculated...
View ArticleDuplicate key fodound when processing dimension
Hi, When i am processing the cube i got the error in one of the dimension.I have data like below.Companycode Documnet Status 1 1 Start 1 1 Stop 2 1 start 2 1 stopI created Surrogate key like...
View ArticleThe syntax for 'Scope' is incorrect
Ive been trying for the last few hours to create a SIMPLE scope statement in SSAS, but whatever I do I get an error with a red squigly underline on the SCOPE statement and the 'syntax for scope is...
View ArticleMDX Forecasting puzzle
Greetings MDXperts! I'm trying to forecast when we'll run out of inventory. I have an Analysis Services cube that has the following measures at the date (single day) level:[Measures].[Forecast Qty...
View ArticlePartitioning update questions
Hello,I am looking into automating my cube builds using SSIS and/or scripts and have a few questions.1. I have a cube with yearly partitions and a Date Dim that has attribute indicators by day for...
View Article(SSAS) Need to use the total of a calculated measure in other calculations...
I have a dimension which categorizes labor as direct and indirect now I have a measure [indirect hours] which comes only for indirect employees and others remain blank. and another measure [direct...
View ArticleHow to alter Existing Dimension
we have cubes and dimensions already built and loaded with data. We have a requirement to change the hierarchy in one dimension.Is there anyway to alter the dimension without dropping the existing...
View ArticleSSAS cude full process memory Usage
HiI want to find out if it is normal for cube full processing task to use more that 10 times it's size in memory.Some detail.Cube type - TabularCube Size 1.5GbDatabase - 11GbMemory consumption when I...
View ArticleUse DAX to create measures in Tabular Model that will apply different logic...
How to say it?I have a fact table and within it a hierarchy, which I created. Now I need to write a DAX calculation that will SUM(facts) differently at one level of the hierarchy than...
View Articleitem with the same key has already been added - SSAS
Am trying to create a new measure but keep getting error:"Item with the same key has already been added"Meanwhile, no measures exist for my model as far as sql server management studio is concerned and...
View ArticleCase statement error "The expression refers to multiple columns. Multiple...
switchTest:=SWITCH('POEC Delivery Types', "MCS T&M", SUM([one thing]),'POEC Delivery Types', "Subcon T&M", SUM([another thing]),0)I'm trying to say that if the Fact column called...
View ArticleDMV to determine database connection
Hi-we've had some problems with switching the analysis server connection (by connection I mean the datawarehouse it processes from) and then not switching it back. Basically, we wind up processing from...
View ArticleDAX for distinct value?
I have a model with two fact tables. There's a one to many relationship between them. Because they're joined this relationship amplifies the 'one' side many times on the key. I need to report on the...
View ArticleGetting error message in SSAS 2014 when using GreenPlum as a source
We are working on building cubes in SSAS using GreenPlum as a source. We are using an OLE DB driver created for GreenPlum to pull the data. We are able to create the data source model and model the...
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