Need SSAS Complex interview questions and Real time scenarios
Hi..I am newly searching a job on MSBI with 3 years of experience.Could any body help me regarding the interview questions and mainly on real time scenarios. Because I attended three interviews, all...
View ArticleWant to display Dimension Labels in Mdx query result set
I have selected 2 measures on column and 3 dimensions on rows I want to display dimension labels in mdx query result set... I am not sure whether its possible or not.. If its possible how to do that.I...
View Article"Between Dates" dimension... Calculate Debts/Inventory ON A CERTAIN DATE in...
Hello,My Fact table contains Invoice_ID, Invoice_Date, Invoice_Amount, Due_Date, Payment_Date, etc...I would like to see the Debts Amount (all the invoices that were paid after due date) during some...
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 ArticleAverage in MDX
Hello, I need to do the followingIIF([if category level or above], [average of "direct" children], IIF([if category below], [returns a measure], NULL))Im summing teh children and divide...
View ArticleSSAS Tabular. MDX slow when reporting high cardinality columns.
Even with small fact tables( ~20 million rows) MDX is extremely slow when there are high cardinality columns in the body of the report.e.g. The DAX query is subsecond.Evaluate SUMMARIZE (...
View Articlehelp with mdx getting the current year
I have this :SELECT HIERARCHIZE( { LASTPERIODS( 3, [FyC Time].[Año - Mes].[Año].&[2013-01-01T00:00:00]) } ) ON COLUMNS, .......How can I change the '2013-01-01T00:00:00' for "something like...
View ArticleProblems connecting Excel to SSAS 2008 (Analysis Services OLE DB Provider...
We're running SSAS 2008 (not R2). We've set up the datapump so that users can access our cubes from Excel over the internet using HTTPS. We have users on Windows XP, 7, and 8. They're running Office...
View ArticleHow to add a user to an role in a cube using t-SQL / xmla?
Hi,I need to add a user to a role in a cube as part of an automated process - so I need to use (prefferably T-sql) to do so?Is this possible? Would I have to use xmla?Thanks,Zoe
View ArticleNeed help cannot create SSAS DB
Hi I'm new to SSAS. This is what i have done so far to create a cube. I have loaded data from excel files and into the sql server tables. Now i opened BIDS and selected new SSAS Project. Selected the...
View ArticleWhat is meaning of - (StrToMember(@City, CONSTRAINED))
Hi,(StrToMember(@City, CONSTRAINED))I can see this MDX in one of our report dataset.Can you explain this MDX.Regards, Ramesh
View ArticlePerformance Issue on MDX Code
Hi Friends,I had a performance issue on my Query it was running about 4 min to get the result.If I don't mention this measures.VUNStartedwithTimePeriod it was giving result just just in 2 seconds I...
View ArticlePassing dimension and measure descriptions into Excel
Hi,I have built a data cube, and am experimenting with end user access. What I would like to do is somehow pass the "description" that i assign to attributes in a hierarchy (example is Quantity, i...
View ArticleHow to create cascading parameter in SSRS using SSAS cube
Hi, 1.Can you please help me how to create cascading parameters in SSRS using SSAS cube? 2.How to load dimension member to drop down list which is the parameter? 3.How to put (filter) parameter in MDX...
View ArticleHow can we create cascading parameter while creating report in SSRS using cube
Hi all, I have created a cube in SSSAS. And Now I want to create reporrt using that cube.In report I have to create cascading parameters (Example: I have two parameter country and city. So If I...
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 ArticleWill Names queries increase the performance
Hi..Under performance consideration whether we have to use Named quires or not..OrWill Names queries increase the performance of a cube or notThanks
View ArticleMDX Return a SET of months for the YTD
Hello,I am writing reports in SSRS that work on a SSAS Cube (2008R2).I' having a report that users 4 times the same subreport (SelMonth - SameMonthLY, YTD, YTD_LY).Now in my parameter query i'm able to...
View ArticleParentheses in field value causing error in MDX query?
I have a query with cascading parameters. The parameters are based on a calculated field. After choosing the value from the second parameter and running the report, I get the following error:"An error...
View ArticleDesign issue similar to Cross Sales
Hello,I'm having troubles getting the design in right shape.I'm having a fact table containing answers to questions. Now I would like to filter the answers to a series questions filtered by ans certain...
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