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SSAS Cubes – Speeding up Queries and Performance
So, you have a SSAS 2005 (SQL Server Analysis Services) Cube, and its not performing how you want it to. What do you do? The first thing to look at is your attribute relationships...
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SSRS and SSAS Formatting Dates
Ok, add this one to the annoying bin. If you are writing SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services) reports of a SSAS (SQL Server Analysis Services) cube, and there is a time dim, you need to format the date...
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SQL 2005 SSAS Deployment Wizard – Where Did My Roles Go?
Ok.. if you are using SSAS 2005 and using the deployment wizard (not using BIDS) – probably because you want to retain your partitions or something. But anyways, if you use it and choose the option to...
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SSAS: Changing Object Id’s Breaks Report Builder Reports
Ugh. Found this one out the hard way. Usually when you change underlying object id’s in SQL Server Analysis Services, it shouldn’t cause any harm. You might have some XMLA to process dim’s and measure...
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SSAS 2005: Cube Perspectives Are Good, But Something Is Missing…
In SQL Server Analysis Services 2005, you can create "perspectives" on cubes. What a perspective can do, is allow you hide different dimensions, measure groups and attributes. This works great but I...
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SQL 2005, SSAS 2005: Using ascmd.exe To Create SQLAgent Jobs That Give You...
In SQL2005, you can create SQL Agent jobs. They can be scheduled, have multiple steps, alert, notify, etc. Pretty great setup. There are some downfalls though. Like in order to call a job from a job,...
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Excel 2003 vs Excel 2007
It is the year 2008, we are half way through. Excel 2003 is 5 years old. Stop using it please. Why? Excel 2003 has the old “limits” – 65,000 rows, 256 columns, memory limits etc. Excel 2007 on the...
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Microsoft BI Client Tools: Easing the Transition from Excel 2003 to Excel...
Being that we are now in the year 2009, you would think that most people are currently using or have been using the Office 2007 suite for a couple of years now. The truth is that there are many...
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SSAS Cube Rule #1 – YOU NEED CALCULATE
Ok, I just spent a few hours debugging a cube that wasn’t bringing back any data. Checking all the relationships, the source data, the marts, etc, etc. And lo and behold, find out that a colleague...
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SSAS: Errors in the metadata manager. The dimension with ID of…
Crazy error today. In Analysis Services, (SSAS), some jobs got hung, sync command got hung, and what ended up happening is a cube on the default instance was totally unusable. Try to delete, rename,...
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