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SSAS: Cube Deployment Issues with Deployment Wizard addressed in SQL Server 2008
If you recently upgraded to SQL Server 2008 or considering an upgrade, you would be glad to know that the Deployment Wizard of Analysis Services works in the way it should.Roles retain their existing...
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Analysis Service (SSAS) Vs. PowerPivot
This post compares Analysis Services and PowerPivot in 30 seconds.
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SSAS: Using DMV Queries to get Cube Metadata
SSAS Dynamic Management Views (DMV's) are very useful to query metadata of a cube. For developers, this is quite handy to provide simple documentation of the cubes they build.
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SSAS: Consider Cube Browsing when Building Role Playing Dimensions
A Role Playing Dimensions reuses its definition to represent same concept in different contexts. Common example of Role Playing Dimension is date dimension. For instance, date dimension can be used to...
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SSAS: Using AMO to Secure Analysis Service Cube
Analysis Management Objects (AMO) opens up the object model of SSAS cube for programming. With a bit of .NET programing, AMO can be effectively used to automate administration tasks. Securing the cube...
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SSAS: AMO Coding Tips
Some coding tips when using Analysis Management Objects (AMO) methods
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SSAS: Troubleshooting this exception – “An unexpected error occurred (file...
This post is about troubleshooting and finding a workaround for this exception - [Analysis Services Execute DDL Task] Error: Internal error: An unexpected error occurred (file 'mdinfo.cpp', line nnnn,...
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SSAS: Process Incremental – What it is & isn’t
SSAS provides Process Incremental as one of the processing options for cubes, measure groups and partitions. It is important to understand how Process Incremental works because it differs significantly...
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SSAS: One Database, many Cubes Vs. One Database per Cube
So you have several cubes to build and perhaps wondering what is the best way to build and deploy your cubes. Should you build all the cubes within the same Analysis Service database or create one...
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SSAS: MDX Calculated Measures that Require Date Comparison
Often there is requirement to calculate measures based on two different date dimensions. For e.g. how many orders that were delivered this month was actually ordered last month? How many orders were...
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