Need help removing Now() function calls for ranges of months
Hello,I am trying to replace the use of Now() in our MDX cube calculations. I have seen in multiple performance guides that now() causes calculations to take place at runtime instead of using the...
View ArticleImplementing Ragged Hierarchy
Hello everyone!Lets take 2 tables from my Data Warehouse called: DIM_ASSET and DIM_ASSET_CLASS and they are related like this:As you can see, parent - child hierarchy is defined in DIM_ASSET_CLASS...
View ArticleConvert yearly grain to monthly using DAX
I have accounting related DAX questions, would anyone be able to suggested any possible way of solving it?My data is at Yearly granularity, but I need to work out dollar amounts on monthly grain. For...
View ArticleDMV for Data Source Views
I was wondering if there was a dynamic management view for data source views in Analysis Services. I can not for the life me find anything, anywhere on the web. I've searched through this list also:...
View ArticleSSAS DMVs?
I am using SSAS 2008. I keep seeing references about DMVs in SSAS but can't find anything in BOL. What is this referring to? Thanks. AnnAnn Weber
View ArticleHow can we read the Catalog_Name one by one dynamically from the SSAS Dynamic...
Hello all,I am having a problem and needs some help ..while reading the catalog name from the SSAS Dynamic Management Views.when i fired the query "select * from $system.dbschema_catalogs " in SSAS, it...
View ArticleXMLA: Get a list of partitions in a cube
Hi there,I'd like to use XMLA to get a list of partitions ina cube. So far the nearest I've got is: Code Snippet<Discover xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-analysis">...
View Articlessas cube many to many bridge measure value incorrect
ssas cube many to many on sql 2008 enterprose eedition,i have abridge table, on which i have a measure (sum) on a certain field, the value is retrning in correct results, although the actual fact...
View ArticleHow to apply filter with the "&" special character
In MDX, I need to find a value with a filter. My filter condition is having a special character "&". How do I apply this filter. Here is the sample MDX,Select...
View ArticleDimension datetime not displayed while creating cube
Hi I have created a named query and time dimension using SSAS. I add a calculated field Datekey to the time dimesion and link with that to named query table in the data source. When i try to generate...
View Articleunderstanding rolap dimensions
Hi ebI don't get the basic architecture of ROLAP dimensions (say all partitions and dimensions are ROLAP in my cube).Google sais about ROLAP cubes: "... dimensions and measures are referenced within...
View ArticleThe END SCOPE statement does not match the opening SCOPE statement.
Hi Experts ,Messages accepted not systematically . Nothing is changed and sometimes it succeed process and sometimes doesn't . Processing run with a SSIS's component using one transaction . We are...
View ArticleDimension Proactive Caching with incremental updates doesn't update existing...
I am attempting to use Incremental Updates to update existing attribute/properties for a dimension that changes throughout the day.I have setup the Scheduled Polling query and can see it running in SQL...
View ArticleSSAS Processing indefinitely
Hello,I currently have a problem with one of my SSAS databases deployed on a SQL Server 2008 R2. I don't know why but i can't reprocess it. Here are my explanations:When I try to process the database...
View ArticleATTRIBUTE HIERARCHY ENABLED SET TO TRUE IN SSAS
Hi All,I have two dimensions organisation and customer address. Customer address creates some intermediate dimensions likeship to customer address, bill to customer address, alt ship customer...
View ArticleAnalyze in Excel without any Tabular data - SSAS 2012 Tabular
Hi,I've implemented and processed a tabular model. I can browse the cube and see the related data inside Management Studio. Inside SSDT, when I run the Analyze in Excel I cannot see any data for the...
View ArticlePorcessing Cube time - Using Extended properties
I read in different posts that for better peerformance of cube processing when we are using Oracle as data source, One should use FetchSize = 496 or 2000 in extended proerties.I configured my data...
View ArticleSSAS: Connectivity Issue.
Hi,I have issues connecting to Analysis Service using Management Studio. I’m getting following Error Message.TITLE: Connect to Server------------------------------Cannot connect to...
View Articleis calculated member deploy using BIDS helper required to process the cube
Hi i have created calculated member in cube and deployed to prodcution using BIDS helper to deploy MDX script. now should i re process whole cube to reflect the changes. please advice.regardsSrinivas
View ArticleHow to remove timestamp column while adding a table into datasource
i want to remove time stamp column in all the tables in datasource how can i do that? because in windows 8 the timestamp gives error while exploring data in BI.Please help meThanks & Regards Manoj
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