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How to remove leaf member values?
I have a dimension hierarchy that is related to multiple fact tables with different granularities. In the case of one fact table, it relates to the middle level of a three level hierarchy.
When you ...
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When to use MOLAP or Tabular
What choice and factor do I need to consider if I gonna have my data mart database to use SSAS MOLAP or tabular?
Is there a guideline in what context to use MOLAP or tabular?
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Date dimension changes between Test and Production Server
I have a cube deployed into a Test environment and Production environment. I've noticed something strange happen with the date dimension.
When deployed into our test environment, the Date Key comes ...
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How to model Week Commencing / Week Ending scenario
I’m reasonably new to data warehousing and I’m struggling to get a feature of my time dimension working. I’d like to model a Week Commencing and Week Ending type of scenario.
I’ve created a DimTime ...
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How to simplify SSAS deployment from DEV to PRO environment
Here is my issue: In my company, there is a team of developper who creates cubes, dimensions(...) in SSAS in a DEV environment (let's call it SSASDEV). This environment is bounded to a SQL Server ...
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How to balance SQL Server memory with SQL Server Analysis Services memory
We have many systems that have the same configuration
One Server (virtual or physical)
Running SQL Server (SQL) and SQL Server Analysis Server (AS)
multiple cores
16gb RAM
Each night the SQL ...
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Real Time SQL Server Analysis Services Cube Processing Report
I would like to know if there is a way to generate a report to determine which SQL Server Analysis Services cubes are processing using SQL Server Reporting Services? I would like to be able to run ...
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Tabular mode disabled during SSAS installation
I am trying to install SSAS in Tabular Mode. However, i find that the radio button is disabled. I am installing it on a separate instance as well. The regular Multidimensional SSAS had been installed ...
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Finding Microsoft.AnalysisServices.Xmla dll in SQL Server 2008 R2
I'm not able to find Microsoft.AnalysisServices.XMLA.dll that I need to import
using Microsoft.AnalysisServices.Xmla;
I have found some articles and answered questions for SQL Server 2005 and 2012. ...
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How to connect to SQL Server Analysis Server via Management Studio command line
I can connect SQL Server Management Studio to a SQL DB by passing command line parameters like this:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\....\Ssms.exe" -E -S SERVERNAME -d DB_NAME -nosplash
(Obviously -E is ...
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Records are discarded if parent dimension refers to a child record that doesn't exist.
I stumbled upon the following issue in SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) When processing a Cube database.
I have a dimension that has sub dimensions, however if the parent record refers to a child ...
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SQL Server Analysis Services - where do I store user logins?
If I would like to create a Business Intelligence (BI) system using SSAS, with SSRS getting data from the SSAS cube.
Which would be the best possible option to store users' credentials used with ...
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Dynamic Dimension Security
I have a cube in SSAS 2012 with about 30 dimensions, one of which is Company.
The Company dimension contains a list of companies, of which there are several hundred in the cube. Our security model ...
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Cube Designer Aggregation Wizard Optimization Zero Percent Every Time
I am pretty new to SSAS.
I have a cube (SSAS 2008 R2) that once had aggregations that has been created using the Aggregation Design wizard. When changing schema a few dimensions, i encountered an ...
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MDX Block Calculation Optimisation
I have a query I'm trying to optimise. I have read an article here http://web.archive.org/web/20100823233821/http://www.biblogs.com/2008/03/30/optimizing-countfilter-expressions-in-mdx/ about ...
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MDX - Sum values greater than then a median calculated measure
I'm relatively new to SSAS / MDX. I have a cube with a calculated field which calculates the Median value for a range of prices.
MEDIAN( [DimItems].[Dim Items Id].CurrentMember.Children, ...
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Custom aggregation for non-leaf level nodes to avoid double counting
I have a fact table with the following columns:
WorkerName
OrderId
NumberOfPackagesPerOrder
Note that neither WorkerName nor OrderId is unique in this fact table.
Multiple users could work on a ...
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Few Questions about SSAS Cubes
I am newbie to SSAS 2012 and here are my questions:
Can we have measures of complex types (table)?
Is it possible to order the results by a specific measure or attribute?
My cube can be modeled as ...
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Can't connect to Analysis Services or Reporting Services on localhost
I'm able to connect to my SQL Server 2008R2 localhost Database Engine and Integration Services.
However, when I try to connect to Analysis Services, it fails with the message: "A connection attempt ...
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SQL Calculation based on 'similar' rows within table
I'm using SQL Server 2008 R2, building a fact table for SSAS.
I can therefore accept solutions to this via either SQL query to SSIS task.
Let's say I have a fact table that looks a little like this, ...
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Dimension Help - Deciding Fact or Dimension
We have the following Dim and Facts:
Customer Dim: SCD Type 2, Info about the customer ie first purchase date, name, address, etc
Product Dim: SCD Type 2, about our products
Customer Snapshot ...
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SQL Server Analysis Studio naive Bayes attribute has too many states
I'm using SQL Server Analysis Studio and I'm trying to train a naive Bayes classifier. I've got an attribute called "item description" that basically represents products you can buy at a store. I've ...
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What does a DBA have to know about SSAS?
I've seen a lot of material covering the business aspect of SSAS, but not really much about the important aspects of administration and management.
From the point of view of administering an instance ...
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SSAS Dimension Help - Finding Values Not In the Dimension using Role Playing
I have a Fact / Fact Less table that has a list of Products likley to be purchased by client.
Client ID Product ID
1 1
1 2
2 2
2 5
etc...
I need to to allow ...
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1answer
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MDX misunderstanding: complex FROM clause
I have a MDX query which syntax is familiar to me:
SELECT NON EMPTY { [Measures].[Amount] } ON COLUMNS,
NON EMPTY { ([Projects].[Id].[Id].ALLMEMBERS * [Priorities].[Id].[Id].ALLMEMBERS ) } ...
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SSAS queries time out when Windows File System Cache drops
We have a SQL 2008 Analysis Services instance on Windows 2003 that is experiencing near-daily performance issues (query timeouts) during peak activity. A second identical instance queried from the ...
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Datawarehouse Design: Combined Date Time dimension vs. Separate Day and Time dimensions and timezones
We are just starting design for a new data warehouse and we're trying to design how our date and time dimensions will work. We need to be able to support multiple timezones (probably at least GMT, ...
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Connect tables in a cube based on historical data
So this may be the wrong place, and may seem pretty basic, but I'm new to building up cubes, so please forgive me.
Imagine a setup described by the following:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Orders] (
...
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Migrating or Synchronizing SSAS Changes
Assume you have 2 SSAS databases, DB1 and DB2, that are identical.
Now they branch off. Changes A and B are made to DB1 and changes C and D are made to DB2.
Is there an easy method to migrate ...
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1answer
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Does msmdpump.dll pass the authentication info to SSAS?
I'm using msmdpump.dll with basic authentication to access a SSAS OLAP cube from the internet. Does this method pass the auth info to SSAS so if I put permisions on the cube they get applied depending ...
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How do I stop refresh conflicts between Proactive Caching of facts and timed refresh of Dimensions in a SQL Server Analysis Service 2005 OLAP cube?
I have a SSAS 2005 OLAP cube which we've very nearly made into a ROLAP cube using a mixture of proactive caching for the fact partitions and timed refreshes for the dimension data.
There are two fact ...
