Best Practice for Calculations
What would be the best approach to adding calculated measures? Database level or Data Source View level or Calculation at the cube level? What are the pros and cons for adding at each of these levels?
View ArticleEnterprise environment - synchronization questions
Hi!I´m planning on setting up an enterprise BI enivornment using SQL 2012. An idea is to have a dedicated processing server running Analysis Services and x number of servers sharing the query load. The...
View ArticleSSAS Cube Calculations Sum does not calculate correctly
Dear allI am working with SQL Server 2012 SSAS.I build my Cube everything is working very good.I want to make a new “Calculations”Create Member CurrentCube.Measures.[X]ASSum({[Market].[Market]....
View Articleconnecting to analysis services
Hi Experts,I am working as sql server dba. i want some help regarding ssas.i have two servers. server01 have 2008 analysis services. i need to connect servero01 cubes from server02.i have done some...
View ArticleI am having this error when i start SSMS 2008 how can i fix it
************** Exception Text ************** Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.RegisteredServers.RegisteredServerException: Unable to read the list of previously registered servers on this system....
View ArticleExcel report alters the Tabular Model cube for all users
Hi,I run a tabular model SSAS cube that is processed once a day. That works just fine.The problem I noted occured after creating an excel report. What I, for example, do is create a pivot table using...
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Date filter is behaving very strange on MS excel when picking specific days
hi , we've created a OLAP CUBE and business starts to navigate it.One user has complained a weird issue when using excel 2010 to connect to cube.Basically, he picked revenue as the measure and...
View ArticleTabular calculated member
Hey everybody, i hope some one can help me with that problem. Tabular mode and 2 Tables: fact_salesinfo, dim_version The Tables look like that: Fact_salesinfo: SalesId,versionid,Net Sales, cost...
View ArticleHelp to calculate Prev member and Current member for time
Apologies for confusing title, I'm trying to calculate growth over period (yearly, monthly, weekly), and looking for way to calculate something like below but not depending on time hierarchy (pls note...
View ArticleMSOALP openquery slower on local than on another server
Hi,We are using SQL server 2008R2 64bit.I have an MDX query which executes within 7 seconds (Profiler 'Query End' - duration = 7288) by using the SSMS MDXquery window. The resultset contains +70000...
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The usage of EXISTING keywork in MDX query
There's a demo from "MDX Step by Step 2008", it introduce the usage of 'EXISTING' to provide the context for set in calculated member.WITH MEMBER [Measures].[Number of Products] AS COUNT(...
View Articleexecuting mdx from sql server without linked server
Hi,I want to execute a mdx query on sql server query window without using a linked server.Can somebody guide me how can I do this . Thanks in Advance.
View ArticleAn error occurred when loading the Cube ; Analysis services 2012
Hi AllWe are facing issue on our SQL Analysis services 2012 (11.0.3381.0) on windows 2008 R2.All cubes are not getting loaded on server. When we restart services some times 2/8 cubes some times 4/8...
View ArticleData, log, tmp files on different discs?
Hi!When installing sql server there is a best practise to separate data and log files on differnent discs. Is there such a recommendation for Analysis service data, log, temp ?Best RegardsSteve
View ArticleProcessing performance problem
Hi! I´m trying to optimize a SSAS processing job. My SSAS cubes are partioned and I´m trying to only process the affected partitions. I use ProcessFull. This works pretty good, takes a few minutes, but...
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How to use union to apply OR logic in MDX.
This query can set OR logic and to get the results.SELECT { [Measures].[Reseller Order Quantity], [Measures].[Reseller Order Count] } ON 0, NON EMPTY {[Product].[Subcategory].MEMBERS} ON 1 FROM...
View ArticleConnecting to DB2 using IBM OLE DB Provider
Hi All,We are trying to build a cube where the underlying tables are from DB2. We have used IBM and Microsoft OLE DB providers, though we are able to connect and build the DSV and cube. But while...
View ArticleMDX Using iif function to supress 1.#INF error not working
Hi AllI am trying to do a calculation using 2 calculated members, one of the values can = 0 which when dividing creates the1.#INF, i have attempted to use an iif function to work around it but it...
View ArticleMDX script execution in sql management studio generates “operation has been...
When I execute this mdx query:SELECTNONEMPTY { [Measures].[All Survey Count] }ONCOLUMNS, NON EMPTY { ([Dim Survey].[Survey Name].[Survey Name].ALLMEMBERS * [Dim...
View ArticleSSAS /MDX question
Hello allI have several dimensions in a cube (Comany Dim,Sales Group Dim,Product Dim, Chart of Account) and a measure JournalsI need to report line by Line on certain member in Companies ,sales group...
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