Dynamic MDX queries in TSQL
Say you want to run the same MDX query for each row in a given rowset. I needed to do this for alerting purposes, where there were different alert thresholds for different attribute values in a given...
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SQL Server Analysis Services Command (XMLA) Agent Job Step Reports Success On...
I ran in to this the other day, did some googling, and really did not like what I saw for workarounds. In SQL Server 2005, when an XMLA job step fails (returns an Exception node in the XML response),...
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Charting Analysis Services 2008 Trace Events
The other day I was running some Analysis Services traces for some reason or another and ran across Chris Webb's post on (Visualising Analysis Services Trace Information in Reporting Services). After...
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Wouldn’t it be fun if Cubes could talk?
I didn't say "wouldn't it be useful" because after putting a test together, asking a cube questions with no context tends to return answers that it probably shouldn't have returned. In BI, it is...
View ArticleClone Analysis Services Partitions with PowerShell
Most of us with large Analysis Services cubes partition our cubes by month or year or some other time-based slice and we have all, at one point or another, developed some way to create partitions for...
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Excel 2007 Hangs When Trying to Edit an OLAP Cube Filter
Ok, it doesn't hang every time you try to edit an OLAP cube filter, but sometimes - it appears to. In reality, I've never seen it permanently hang - just kind of go away for a while. Here's the basic...
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Analysis Services Writeback – Working with Weight Expressions
While writeback has been around for a while, it didn't really get easy to do until Excel 2010 was released because wrapping a UI around it was cumbersome. Now that we have a simple writeback UI via the...
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SSAS Cache Isn’t Making Cents
I stole the pun from my Business Analyst, Mr. John Seiler Now on to my issue - when SSAS caches the value for my [Actual] measure, it seems to do so based on the results of the first query that...
View ArticleHiding SSAS Attributes With Powershell
The challenge here was that we have a cube with some great data as well as some low level detail (customer detail, think PII) that we want to expose to a larger audience. The problem is that the low...
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