Hi there,

I can't seem to get Analysis Services installed properly.

During installation the following error pops up:

The service could not be started. Reason:  Service 'MSSQLServerOLAPService' start request failed.

Also, when I try to start the service manually, the same error pops up.

The event log only shows two items:

1. Error - MSSQLServerOLAPService - The service cannot be started:    (.. without any explanation)

2. Information - MSSQLServerOLAPService - Service stopped.

I already removed the Analysis Services feature and added it again, a couple of times, without luck.

Any pointers to further debug this issue?

The OS is Windows Server 2012.

Hi!

I've stumbled across an issue with a DATE-dimension that I'm hoping to get some help with. In this date dimension table there's a PERIOD-attribute that I'm interested in turning into a slicer in Excel, but not sure how. The problem is that values in this field can be subsets of each other.

Let's say this field can have three different values, LAST 7 DAYS, LAST 30 DAYS and LAST YEAR prioritized in that particular order, meaning that all dates between getdate() and getdate()-7 will be assigned value = LAST 7 DAYS, All the rest back to getdate -30 will be assigned value = LAST 30 DAYS and beyond that LAST YEAR.

What I'd lke to achieve is to use this PERIOD-attribute in a single slicer in excel, where I can let users pick either LAST 7 DAYS, LAST 30 DAYS or LAST YEAR. Note that I DON'T want users to have to pick both LAST 7 DAYS and LAST 30 DAYS. Only one choice should be made!

This seems a bit tricky (for me at least) as I need to be able to pass more than one value from the slicer down to the underlying data, if there's a subset that needs to be picked up as well. For example if I choose LAST 30 days, I need data to be retrieved for both records containing LAST 7 DAYS and LAST 30 DAYS, as the 7-day records should be included in the 30 days.

Is it possible to do this by somehow manually configuring/coding the slicer in excel, or does it require some re-modelling in the cube/dimension or underlying datamodel? And if so, what would you suggest?

Thanks in advance!

/Z

I want to create a calculated field called Adjusted Sales.  I have two dimensions in my cube.  One is Sales Team and the other is Focused Products.  There is a many to many relationship between the two dimensions which I used a bridge measure group to make it work.  If the Sales Team of a person running a report has access to a Focused Product member, I want to take sales and multiply them by 1.25.

The Sales Team gets passed into my report's MDX.  And I can handle making this work in the report.  But I can't wrap my head around getting it to work in the cube as a calculated measure.  I want to see all Focused Products in the cube, but only adjust the sales if the focused product is one the sales team member has access to.  

For example, Sales Team A has to focused on Products 1, 2, and 3.  But in the report I want to see Products 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.  The sales should only be adjusted to Products 1, 2 and 3, but not for the rest since Team A doesn't have access to them.  Any idea on how the MDX would look for this one?  As I am typing this, I think I need to redesign the cube to even support it.

I am trying to import the contents of Hive tables into SSAS 2014 Tabular.  When I use a simple query like the one below, I have no problem.  

SELECT
a.MDSE_CORP_KEY,
a.MDSE_CORP_DESCFROM  db_edw.tmcpd_mdse_corp_dim a

However, when I try to use a query that joins two Hive tables, I get and error.  Both the query and the error are below.

"OLE DB or ODBC error: [Microsoft][HiveODBC] (35) Error from Hive: error code: '0' error message: 'ExecuteStatement finished with operation state: ERROR_STATE'.; S1000.

An error occurred while processing the partition 'Query 1_b011dd0c-280a-4d6c-be02-74b9d0704afb' in table 'Query 1_b011dd0c-280a-4d6c-be02-74b9d0704afb'.

The current operation was cancelled because another operation in the transaction failed."

This is using an existing ODBC connection to Hive.  We have both 32 bit and 64 bit connections with the same name.

What is the problem?  Why doesn't this work?

HI,

I' ve 2 dimensions in my cube with just 2 values each (Dim1 Show in thousands with "Original" and "in Thousands", Dim2 Invert Signs with "Original" and "Inverted") Both Dimensions are connected Regular via Named Calculations. We are also using Account intelligence with Custom Rollup formulas and unary operators

There are two Scopes:

Scope([Show in Thousands].[Show in Thousands].&[2]);

    This=[Show in Thousands].[Show in Thousands].&[1] /1000;

End Scope;

Scope([Invert Signs].[Invert Signs].&[2]);

    This=[Invert Signs].[Invert Signs].&[1] *(-1);

End Scope;

Now in my mdx query, when I have [Invert Signs].[Invert Signs].&[1] and [Show in Thousands].[Show in Thousands].&[1] in my where clause I got this error message:

With the Combinations 1,2 ; 2,1 ; 2,2 it works as expected.

Problem

I get the above error when trying to process the cube.

Environment

Server OS - Windows 2003 64Bit

SQL Server 2005 64Bit

Database - Teradata

Connectivity - OLE DB for Teradata

Testing

- Have successfully tested OLE DB connectivity using Hyperion, connecting using an OLE DB Connection file.

- Get the same error when trying to process a sample MS Access database or Teradata

- Uninstalled and reinstalled SQL Server 2005

If anyone has any idea’s it would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

I would like to create a calculated member using data tools but the icon "new calculated member" is grey under the tab calculations so I can't click it....

and in the space in which I should create the calculated member appears "Unexpected error occurred: 'unexpected internal error in the parser: -1056964608'"

I am using Windows 10 64 bit.

Can someone help me?

I'm trying to create a measure in SSAS called others that contain sum of other than top 10 occupations

*I planned to do a measure to calculate sum of all occupations

SUMX (
    SUMMARIZE (
        DimOccupation,
        [DetailedOccupationAName],"All", SUM ( DimTourisimToPersonsMapping[PersonWeight] )
    ),
    [All]
)

*then to do a measure that calculate a sum of top 10 occupations

SUMX (
    TOPN (
        10,
        SUMMARIZE (
            DimOccupation,
            [DetailedOccupationAName],"TOPO", SUM ( DimTourisimToPersonsMapping[PersonWeight] )
        ),"TOPO"
    ),
    [TOPO]
)

here is the semantic error the second code give the some for all occupation not the top 10

then I created a measure that is measure 1 - measure 2 which gives 0

any idea how to solve this problem?

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone knows if there is a simple way to stop the query from SSIS to SSAS (MDX) from returning all the levels of a dimension when using the DESCENDANT or CHILDREN function (as below).

In this query I am using the CHILDREN function on the Level 5 member parent. Ideally I would like the MDX query just to return the children members Level. This is a dimension with many parents and a ragged hierarchy so can easily pick a level to return. It also becomes a problems when I have to return all base members of a dimension as some are on on the top level and some are 10 levels down so being able to return just the actual members would be great.

Thanks,

Dean

Hi All,

     Under the Work Item Measure group, there is Work Item Count Measure. When filtering using Date Dimension the Work Item Count gives the count as growing numbers.(i.e. it adds successive values). If the actual count is 10,20,30,40 it gives as 10,30(10+20),60(30+30),100(60+40). I am not able to view the definition of Work Item Count measure. So I want to know how we can edit the 'Work Item Count' .

Thanks

Hi All,

I am trying to calculate count of records between two dates.
For the above requirement following query is returning "correct results"

With
SET RDB as HEAD( EXISTING  [Requested Date].[Year -  Quarter -  Month -  Date] .[Date].members,1)
SET CDB as HEAD( EXISTING [Completed Date].[Year -  Quarter -  Month -  Date].[Date].Members, 1)
SET RDE as TAIL( EXISTING  [Requested Date].[Year -  Quarter -  Month -  Date] .[Date].members,1)
SET CDE as TAIL( EXISTING [Completed Date].[Year -  Quarter -  Month -  Date].[Date].Members, 1)

Member Measures.x as
AGGREGATE({NULL : (RDB.item(0)) } * { CDB.item(0):NULL} ,[Measures].[Fact Work Item Details Count])

Member Measures.Y as
AGGREGATE({NULL : RDE.item(0) } * { CDE.item(0):NULL} ,[Measures].[Fact Work Item Details Count])

SELECT NON EMPTY {Measures.x,Measures.y} ON COLUMNS,
NON EMPTY { [DimRequestType].[Department_RequestType].[Request Type].MEMBERS} ON ROWS
FROM [ServiceRequestPerformance]
WHERE ( {[Requested Date].[Year -  Quarter -  Month -  Date].[Month].&[2015-01-01T00:00:00],
[Requested Date].[Year -  Quarter -  Month -  Date].[Month].&[2016-04-01T00:00:00]},
{[Completed Date].[Year -  Quarter -  Month -  Date].[Month].&[2015-01-01T00:00:00],
[Completed Date].[Year -  Quarter -  Month -  Date].[Month].&[2016-04-01T00:00:00]}
)

This MDX query is returning faster in SSMS. (Approx 2-3 Sec)

But if i create SET for(RDB,CDB,RDE,CDE) & Calculated measures for (Measures.x & Measures.Y) in the cube  and run the below query then it is taking long time to return result. (Nearly 2 minutes).

SELECT NON EMPTY {[Measures].[X],[Measures].[Y]} ON COLUMNS,
NON EMPTY { [DimRequestType].[Department_RequestType].[Request Type].MEMBERS} ON ROWS
FROM [ServiceRequestPerformance]
WHERE ( {[Requested Date].[Year -  Quarter -  Month -  Date].[Month].&[2015-01-01T00:00:00],
[Requested Date].[Year -  Quarter -  Month -  Date].[Month].&[2016-04-01T00:00:00]},
{[Completed Date].[Year -  Quarter -  Month -  Date].[Month].&[2015-01-01T00:00:00],
[Completed Date].[Year -  Quarter -  Month -  Date].[Month].&[2016-04-01T00:00:00]}
)

Above Query is similar to first query except that it uses measures created in the cube.

Any help is appreciated.

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Good Day,

We would like to SUM up values in multiple columns using Tabular (or DAX). This is obviously not a problem but the number of records we will be calculating will easily hit the 5 Billion mark. This is not an everyday scenario, as this processing will happen once during month end or beginning of the month. We are however worried whether this number of records is an issue for a Tabular Model.

Will this be an issue? We also like to know what the limit to the number of records a tabular model can calculate? Or at what point does processing a calculations start becoming an issue for Analysis Services (Tabular Model)?

Regards,

Hi,

  I have 2 table that pull data from Navision Financial system,1 for detail ( Name is "Income Statement") and another 1 is Total Account only.

Foe example, Account 11000~11880 for Cash account and 11898 is 11000~11880 total. so detail table include 11000~11880, and Total Table has 11898 only.

For now, in Tabular, I can create a measure like #11898 := Calculate(SUM([Net Charge]), FILTER('Income Statement', 'Income Statement'[AcctNo] >= "11000" && 'Income Statement'[AcctNo] <= "11890")) . but how to create a "Calculate Column" in Total Table of column 11898  ?

Thanks!!

James Liang

Hi All,

I'm stuck on some things. If F Qty is selected I want Sales Line Selling Quantity to repeat. I don't want to change the global setting 'IgnoreUnrelatedDimensions' (as we have lots of users using this measure and it will affect all their spreadsheets) is it possible to do this in MDX in the 'calculations' tab? Also I don't want F Qty to aggregate. (basically you can have multiple forecasts at multiple months) so summing them doesn't make sense. They still want to analyse F Qty side by side against Sales Line Selling Quantity. Is it possible to turn off or hide the grand total for a column? If not, how can i display the last value that isn't a 0 as a grand total? Thanks for your help! Also if i can get the Sales Line Selling Quantity to display my forecast accuracy calculation should work.

hi,

is it possible to process blank fields in SSAS. also, i have a table that contains a single space ' ' instead of nulls. the cube is throwing error saying there exists duplicates an points to records containing the single space ' ' . is there a way i can avoid this error ? or is converting it into nulls the only way. i don't want to skip the error by selecting ignore errors while processing function.

thanks in advance

I have two servers set up. One is for production which is working but my dev environment does not work on this timed job. The following error message is as follows (Thanks in advance for any guidance):

Message
Executed as user: MYCO-DEV-002\dz_svc. <return xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-analysis"><results xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/analysisservices/2003/xmla-multipleresults"><root xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-analysis:empty"><Exception xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-analysis:exception" /><Messages xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-analysis:exception"><Error ErrorCode="3238002695" Description="Internal error: The operation terminated unsuccessfully." Source="Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services" HelpFile="" /><Error ErrorCode="3239837702" Description="Server: The current operation was cancelled because another operation in the transaction failed." Source="Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services" HelpFile="" /><Error ErrorCode="3238068224" Description="The following system error occurred:  This user can't sign in because this account is currently disabled. " Source="Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services" HelpFile="" /><Error ErrorCode="3239182436" Description="Errors in the high-level relational engine. A connection could not be made to the data source with the DataSourceID of 'MYCO Foo', Name of 'MYCO Foo'." Source="Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services" HelpFile="" /><Error ErrorCode="3240034316" Description="Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the dimension, with the ID of 'Form Full Parsed', Name of 'Form Full Parsed' was being processed." Source="Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services" HelpFile="" /><Error ErrorCode="3240034317" Description="Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the 'Element Id' attribute of the 'Form Full Parsed' dimension from the 'Foo' database was being processed." Source="Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services" HelpFile="" /><Error ErrorCode="3238068224" Description="The following system error occurred:  This user can't sign in because this account is currently disabled. " Source="Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services" HelpFile="" /><Error ErrorCode="3239182436" Description="Errors in the high-level relational engine. A connection could not be made to the data source with the DataSourceID of 'MYCO Foo', Name of 'MYCO Foo'." Source="Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services" HelpFile="" /><Error ErrorCode="3240034316" Description="Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the dimension, with the ID of 'Form Full Parsed', Name of 'Form Full Parsed' was being processed." Source="Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services" HelpFile="" /><Error ErrorCode="3240034317" Description="Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the 'Nickname' attribute of the 'Form Full Parsed' dimension from the 'Foo' database was being processed." Source="Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services" HelpFile="" /><Error ErrorCode="3238068224" Description="The following system error occurred:  This user can't sign in because this account is currently disabled. " Source="Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services" HelpFile="" /><Error ErrorCode="3239182436" Description="Errors in the high-level relational engine. A connection could not be made to the data source with the DataSourceID of 'MYCO Foo', Name of 'MYCO Foo'." Source="Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services" HelpFile="" /><Error ErrorCode="3240034316" Description="Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the dimension, with the ID of 'Form Full Parsed', Name of 'Form Full Parsed' was being processed." Source="Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services" HelpFile="" /><Error ErrorCode="3240034317" Description="Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the 'Parent ID' attribute of the 'Form Full Parsed' dimension from the 'Foo' database was being processed." Source="Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services" HelpFile="" /></Messages></root></results></return>.  The step failed.

Hi

I hope someone knows what to do here. We got a dimension that keeps failing when getting processed with the following error:

Internal error: The operation terminated unsuccessfully.

Internal error: An unexpected error occurred (file 'pfoledbreadercache.cpp', line 499, function 'PFDBCacheGroup::InsertData').

Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the 'Finance Dimension Key' attribute of the 'Finance Dimensions' dimension from the 'OlapDB' database was being processed.

Errors in the back-end database access module. The read operation was cancelled due to an earlier error.

This is on a SQL Server 2012 using provider SQLNCLI11.1

I hope someone knows what is happening in pfoledbreadercache.cpp line 499.

Thanks in advance

Paw