What would you say to this BI approach?
Hello,There is a person who approaches to the BI like this:select campo1, campo2, 'EMPTY' as campo3 case when .... end as campo4 from tabla1 left outer tabla2 where campo1 in (select ..... union all...
View ArticleYearly Calculation of Forecasting Year
Hi Eveyone ,here in below table I want to calculate the Forecasting of year, the logic is as below sum of TotalValue*Weight1 Corresponding to each year would be the TotalValue of year 2014 and for...
View ArticleMDX date from to : issue
Hi all,Now I have one weried issue:WITH MEMBER [ACTV DATE].[YEAR].[YTD] AS AGGREGATE(STRTOMEMBER('[ACTV DATE].[Month].&[2013-01-01T00:00:00]'):STRTOMEMBER('[ACTV...
View ArticleDistinct Count Measure causes the whole cube to become 40 times bigger
hi there: We have an existing cube which has a measure group that contains order item total, tax info and order item quantities .Now business wants to have the order count into the measure group. The...
View Articleoffice 2010 performace issue with xls using SSAS 2005
we are facing a strange behaviour of MS Excel files with SSAS 2005. We have some xls files with cube connections with some macros. we have recently updated our office pack from 2003 to 2010(32 bit)...
View ArticleMDX query tuning help!
Hi, Seems like we have a bad query when the user tries to explore data. it used to work but it doesn´t now. We have located the query using sql profiler. I tried to create agregations based on use and...
View ArticleImplementing the Last Non Empty
Dear All,I am trying to get the last non empty set by applying the Last Non Empty property to the measures Projectedvalue and Gross amount. The below is the original table. The output I want is as...
View Articlegenerally what will be the cube size range?
Dear Experts. i am new to the SSAS .generally what will be the cube size in real time?and how much time it will take to process.thank you
View ArticleHide a measure group in excel 2007 'Show Fields Related to'
Hi All,I know that if a I want to hide a measure group to users I have to set the properties 'Visible' to false for all the measure of the measure group.But when I open a connection to the cube with...
View ArticleMDX limit usage
Hi, Lets say after a basic query in MDX my output was 100 rows. If I want to limit to top 10 rows, I can use topcount. But, this usage of Topcount will fetch entire 100 rows from database and...
View ArticleGetting a count of members in a set
Hello,I'm using Excel to connect to an OLAP cube and building a report to show actual hours charged to a project. I need to create a measure now to perform some calculation on the actual hours for...
View ArticleMDX: Forming Complex "Structures" (for lack of a better term)
I'm trying to create a "structure" that contains (Customer, Date of First Purchase, Date of Last Purchase) where the last 2 items are members from the same dimension attribute. This structure will form...
View ArticleControlling the MDX constructed by Excel PivotTables
Running SQL Profiler while refreshing an Excel PivotTable that runs for several minutes revealed how poorly performing the MDX is that Excel is constructing. Can someone answer why the MDX is this...
View ArticleCalculated Member no longer analysable by Dimension
We have a Dimension called DimSupporter on which there is also a MeasureGroup defined as we wish to Count no. of Supporters etc. There is also a direct relationship in SSAS between this MG and the...
View ArticleFiltering days in Cube Scoped Calculated Members
I need to createa calculated membercontaininga calculation on ayearwhere every day isthe same dayof the week,the date range ending with thedaterequested by the user.I thoughttouse thefollowing...
View ArticleQuery Dates in MDX for Snapshot Data
I want to see WIP data in my cube. My fact table has a WIP_Date and a Bill_Date. If the item is not billed hence no Bill_Date, then it is in WIP. WIP is a snapshot...so at any point in time I should be...
View ArticleDimensions and Cubes Process OK / database 'Process Full' fails
Hello,I am having trouble processing SSAS database (SQL 2008R2). Within BIDS environment I can process all dimensions and two cubes - no problem. But when I try to process the database (Process Full –...
View ArticleError 1642 when installing KB2793634
[Running SQL Server 2012 Enterprise SP1 on Server 2012 Std]I just installed Analysis Services for PowerPivot for SharePoint, then ran Windows Update and installed KB2793634 (Update Rollup for SQL...
View ArticleTabular testing evaluation context in SSDT (2010) by filtering columns
hi all,not sure if anyone has come across this -- I am trying to do some data validation for some calculations and it seems the formulas within BIDS/SSDT (2010) are not calculated anymore, neither...
View ArticleExcel MDX and NON EMPTY
We have an Excel 2010 pivot table hitting a SSAS cube. The basics of the Excel MDX is:SELECT NON EMPTY Hierarchize({DrilldownLevel({[Project].[Project Name].[All Projects]},,,INCLUDE_CALC_MEMBERS)})...
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