Cube Design: use of a coverage table with a degenerate (collapsed) dimension...
Anybody got any tips on cube / dimension design, please?I have a process being modeled with several business events which take place at different times of the day. Call them Event A, B and C. The...
View ArticleNo row headers for MDX query...
Good evening everyone, fairly new to MDX, as if you couldn't tell :-) Can anyone explain how to add row headers to the following query? I'm sure there is a way, surprised that the column headers...
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Error in Ranking when Ranking Multiple Measures, All Measures are going...
Hello All,A few Months ago I upgraded from SQL 2000 to SQL 2008 R2. I used the upgrade wizards to upgrade my Analysis Cubes. All Cubes upgraded correctly except for 1. This Cube was a Metric...
View ArticleMeasure Calc at Lowest level, all others SUM
I'm calculating a Product Mix Variance.I have the formula working in a Measure, but as soon as I want to see it at an aggregated level it should SUM the values from the lowest level and not...
View Articleattribute Key not found error while processing a dimension
I have an attribute key not found error while processing my Customer dimension. This is strange because i have seen similar error for fact tales caused due to referential integrity issues, but in my...
View ArticleFinding first non empty within range?
Hi,I am struggling with this and hoping someone can help.I have the following MDX, and would like to find the first non empty value if the first value in the range is null and the first previous value...
View ArticleMTD Function
Hi friends,please find below query, it is working fine as per the conditions written but reqquirement is a bit complex at week level.Though I select week, it should display sum of measure at month...
View ArticleCalculating hours % of total weekly hours
I apologize in advance, as I realize this is a lengthy post. I wanted to try to provide as much detail as I could, though.I’m trying to determine the best approach for creating a %-based calculated...
View ArticleConnecting to Analysis server on one server, SQL Server on another server
I am trying to create cubes on a 2012 SSAS that accesses the star schema in SQL Server 2008R2 on another server. How do I build and deploy these cubes to another server other than the one in the data...
View ArticleScope statement used for formatting gets error on highest level of hierarchy
This scope statement (below the error message) is used to change the formatting (actually, block out) the measure on each level of a hierarchy based on if the Member Property is set to "N". This...
View ArticleWhat is the best book for Analysis Server 2012??
What is the best published book for SSAS 2012?
View ArticleCalculated Measure Crossjoins a Dimension
I have to build a handful of calculated measures which are filtered by a set of dimension attributes. Something similar to CREATE MEMBER CurrentCube.[Measures].[Measure A] AS ([Measures].[Real...
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SSAS 2008 snowflake - dimensions with one-to-many relationship (NOT fact...
Hi, below is my data model for SSAS 2008 on snowflake schema.Below is SQL Server DW tables:DimStudent - StudentID [primarykey], StudentName, DateOfBirth, AddressIDDimStudentAddresses - AddressID...
View ArticleError: OLE DB was unable to convert a value to the data type requested for...
Hi,I wrote a query in MDX and it works fine, but when I add the DRILLTHROUGH word at the beginning, I get the following error: Errors in the back-end database access module. OLE DB was unable to...
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 ArticleAverage Calculation MDX
Hi Friends,I would like to calculate average per day, per week , per month...In my report I was passing date parameters so based on that I need to calculateAVGPer day,Per week, Per month.I have done...
View Articleaggrigate week values in month
Hello All,I have two questions:1)Let say i have one month and it contains 5 weeks.when i select 2nd week it should show 2+3+4+5 weeks total,when i select 3rd week it should show 3+4+5 and when i select...
View ArticleCube Hierarchy does not drill down properly
Hi All,I have a Cube developed using Visual Studio 2008. (on SQL Server 2008 )A factTable (factSales ) linked to a dim table (dimCategory ) using PK/FK relationship.dimCategory Table has following...
View ArticleMDX - WITH MEMBER/Calculated member vs Including in the Select
Hi all.I'm aiming to have a calculated measure so that I can see the value for the boundary of the Nth percentile (lets take 50). So if select 50th percentile for a set { 1, 3, 4, 4, 5, 7 } I should...
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