SQL Cube response issues
Hi We have a really strange situation for which no one seems to be able to find an answer. The cube is a smallish cube on SQL2005 SP4 SSAS. All the PC where we try to connect to the Cube are Windows 7...
View ArticleCalculation Dimension Last 30 Days
I'm using Marco Russo's DateTool Dimension example and running into issues trying to create a "Last 30 Days" calculation. Below is what I'm using. It works at the "Date" level in the hierarchy, but any...
View ArticleSSAS Cube throwing error for particular attribute in a dimension when...
Hi All,I have cube where have more than 7 dimensions. A dimension called CARD is having 12 attributes. when dragging & dropping measures & hierarchy attribute from CARD dimension it is working...
View ArticleDrill through action with two fact tables
Hello,I have a situation where two fact tables (views) are used in cube. There is a dimension field which is present in one fact table only.Now when I want to use the drill through with that dimension...
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Usage Based Optimisation Wizard is asking for Credentials
Hi,I am trying to run the usage based optimisation wizard within BIDs using an account which can successfully read the OLAPQueryLog table within the Database Engine. However the wizard asks for...
View ArticleRefresh drillthrough data when opening excel file?
Hello everyone,Yesterday, one of my customers asked me about whether it's possible to have the data retrieved from analysis services automatically refreshed every time he opens the excel sheet. In...
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MDX eleminate empty rows
Hi,I have a MDX query which returns two rows with an empty row.I wangt to filter out the empty row. how can i do that?Find the below query and out put:SELECT NON EMPTY{[Measures].[DocRev Count]} ON 0...
View ArticleCUBE Perspectives
HiOne of my end user is using a report in excel which accesses the CUBE. The cube has 10 measures and 14 dimensions. The new request is the user wants to see only one measure and a couple of...
View ArticleWill partitioning help with 4,294,967,296 tuples issue? What about SSAS 2012?
I've created a shell dimension with a nonaggregatable attribute and SCOPEd each of the members. What we've been finding is that as long as the user only uses 5 or fewer members in a single query...
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Simple calculated member cripples query?
I have a dirt simple calculated member. All I want to do is bring back the corresponding measure for the previous year. When I run with the query below and a cold cache, notice the commented out...
View ArticleDistinct Count – referenced dimension attribute
May I please know if it is possible to create a distinct count of an attribute which is in a referenced/snowflaked dimension using the cube designer interface?Many thanks,Mpumelelo
View ArticleSSAS tabular - 24 hour clock
I cannot find any information on this anywhere: I am trying to get my tabular model to accept a date / time in the form of "yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:dd" where the time part is a 24 hour clock. This results in...
View ArticleWhile joining dimension and fact table in data sour view what kind of join...
Hi, In data source view, when we map dimensions to fact table. I would like to know what kind of join SSAS makes like left join, right join or equi join while linking fact to dimension. Thanks, Ramesh
View ArticleCannot start Analysis Services 2008 service
Hi!I have Sql Server 2008 R2 and Analysis Services 2008. I could use it without problems for few days, but today, when I stop analysis service with Sql Server Configuration Manager and tried to start...
View ArticleMDX Get DAY value from Date Dimension, ROW Level
Hi New to MDX, probably an easy one; How do I extract the Day from a Date at ROW level, I tried via using a Measure but the performance causes an out of memory to be thrown SQL Example...
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Connect to an Excel Workbook Data Source saved on Sharepoint in a Tabular...
Afternoon,I'm currently building a protype of a new reporting system and before i build it into SQL properly I have got an excel table saved on a SharePoint 2013 Site which I want to connect to a...
View ArticleCalculated month by month resource costs
End goal is >> show month by month breakout of resource costs.We have resource costs that are displayed via 3 columns:1. TotalCost2. Start Date3. FinishDateI am working with the time dimension...
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StartDate and EndDate as parameter values
Hi Experts,Currently my mdx query is:-WITH MEMBER [StartingWeek] AS CDate("5/5/2013") MEMBER [WkStartDate] AS [Start Date Time].[Week].CurrentMember.Firstchild.MEMBER_VALUE MEMBER [WkDiff] AS...
View ArticleSSAS 2012 Calculated Member Issue
We have ssas db's that were recently converted from 2008 r2 to 2012. Over all things seem to be functioning fine except for a dimension on where we created calculated members for aggregations.The dim...
View ArticleIn Tabular Model How to Change Workspace Database?
Hello,I've an old Visual Studio BIM model solution pointing to workspace database that no longer exist (deleted).Is there a reason that the property for this Model.bim is gray out? I would like to...
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