Cube generation taking 7+ hours
We have a pretty large cube, with thousands of partitions. The way pour process works is that if there is a cube schema change, like adding new dimension or removing one, etc..., then we drop the SSAS...
View ArticleSSAS Deployment Wizard - Data Source connection string userid and Password...
I have an SSAS database (Analysis Services 2005) which connects to Oracle for the data. I have the userid and passwordsaved in the connection string. If I deploy the cube from Visual Studio I DON't...
View ArticleImpact of Cache clearing of a measure group
I find the documentation on cache clearing for a specific measure group interesting but difficult to interpret. A typical example is:<ClearCache...
View ArticleOptimizing a generic DAX formula - SSAS 2012 Tabular
Hi,I've a SSAS 2012 Tabular model with a generic DAX formula with the corresponding value depends on Measures (Qty, Amount) and Categories (Actual, Budget, Actual vs Budget). In other terms, for each...
View ArticleFilter last 12 months
I have a fact table that contains monthly reporting dates (related to a date dimension). These monthly reporting dates are listed as columns in a pivot table and I currently have around 2 years...
View ArticleColumn Total with in the same MDX result set
Hi all,I am new in mdx and here my query is i want to show the column total in the same result set in a separate row.My MDX quey is ===================select {[Measures].[Internet Tax Amount],...
View Articletop product
I would like to create a calculation member that returns top 10 productname by salevolume and set rest of productname to 'Other'. and it works with ohter dimension slice and diceHow can i do this in...
View ArticleCube Browser Filter Field challenge
When i apply filter using the filter field of cube browser,I am not getting appropriate result for a calculated member.When I apply the same filter using filter expressions then the result seems to be...
View ArticleFact Table with several DATE_SIDs
Hi reader,I am facing a challenge. I have a fact table with at least 10 DATE_SIDs, and I would like to know how encapsulate them in separate dimension instead of using referenced dimension. Thank you...
View ArticleBI implementation for Cloud Provider
Hi ,Am working with a Cloud Service provider organization and the organization for now provides IaaS . Am the DatabaseDeveloper with daily routines of SSIS and SSRS and other Database related stuff . I...
View ArticleWrite back data comments to SSAS cube
I was wondering whether there is any way that users can create a pivot table using an SSAS cube as a connection and adding comments to specific rows which are then written back to the cube.</p>...
View ArticleMDX how to get all children ??
Hi,I want to find all calendar dates lies under slicer " [Date].[Calendar].[Month].&[2004]&[5] ". WITH MEMBER Measures.CName as [Date].[Calendar].[Date].children select { Measures.CName } on...
View ArticleMDX currentmember/IS not working
I have three queries to filter by a member using the currentmember function. When the filter is applied to the hierarchy that has the member I want to filter by, I can match the members using the IS...
View ArticleAdditional value for a CrossJoin query?
How can I add another filter to include not just State=Done but also add an OR for State=Approved? I tried adding an additional StrToMember line but that did not work.SELECT {...
View ArticleScheduling to process SSAS 2012 Cube (dim/fact)
Hi,Simple question on SSAS 2012 cube :How can I schedule to process the OLAP Cube (processign DIM and FACT) on a daily basis (i.e. default process--> delta changes only) ?Thanks
View ArticleModifying a Dimension value in Excel
Hi,This issue might be more related to Excel than SSAS, but maybe someone in here can help anyway.When browsing a SSAS cube in a Pivot table in Excel, it's possible to "overwrite" the values shown in a...
View Articlebug upon process dim/fact on ssas 2012? sql scripts are not shown [BI Edition].
when processing olap dim/fact on ssas 2012, the sql scripts are now show as used to in SSAS 2008 R2. moreover the dim attributes are not shown under the dim, they are just shown as a list.
View ArticleLast Nonempty Member till current date for all time hierarchy
Hi All,I have a cumulative data coming from source. Some dates will not have data, it will be null in database. In my cube, I have two time hierarchy Year-Quarter-Month-Date and Year-Fiscal Week Also...
View ArticleCopying data from one partition to a partition in another cube
We have a cube with a particular partition in one of the Measure groups and I would like to copy that partition (including the data - most important) to another identical cube (apart from that...
View ArticleExcel Pivot display as SSAS cube browser
Hi Experts,I've created SSAS cube and in that when I am browsing it am getting each measure under each column value like below... Dimension2Dimension1 Jan 2009...
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