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Here is another one of those "by design" issues (see the Not All Calculated Members Are Born Equal blog for another recent gotcha) that are not documented but can sure waste you precious time figuring out. The issue was first submitted on connect.microsoft.com by Greg Galloway almost a year...
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You can use the Microsoft Connect website to find most requested features. Unfortunately, the search doesn't let you specify a product so the search results may be related to other products. For example, searching on reporting services may bring in results from Analysis Services and reporting . Nevertheless...
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Don Demsak pointed out another Silverlight-based control from Infragistics, which is currently in a CTP phase. There are actually two controls: XamWebDataChart and XamWebPivotGrid. I played a bit with it and it looks great. I liked the Excel-like paradigm with the metadata pane on the right and the PivotChart...
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Analysis Services leads the OLAP server market and it should be your platform of choice for historical and trend reporting. In the spirit of the season, here is my Top 10 Wish List for Analysis Services. All items are related to regular cubes and none to PowerPivot which I am yet to try. Improved client...
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Now that I've got my copy and read it, I can say a few things about the book Expert Cube Development with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services by Chris Webb, Alberto Ferrari, and Marco Russo. As mentioned in another post , the authors (all MVPs and prominent SSAS experts) don't disappoint...
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An interesting issue popped up yesterday regarding the calculated member syntax. I had to multiply negative amounts in a financial cube for certain account categories that had negative amounts. The cube also had a Many:Many relationship between financial accounts and account groups which may be related...
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Readers have been asking about a revised edition of my Applied Microsoft Analysis Services book for version 2008. First of all, I'd like to thank all my readers who bought and liked the book. This book has been a great success and it really exceeded my expectations in any way! It has great reviews...
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Microsoft announced release on SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP (CTP3) with a build number of #1352.12. MSDN, TechNet Subscribers and TAP customers can download the SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP today. Non-subscribers will be able to access the CTP on Nov. 11 th . This should be a feature-complete build...
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Reporting Services supports an Aggregate function to retrieve aggregated values directly from the data provider if the provider supports this feature. The Aggregate function is especially useful with retrieving data from Analysis Services because it may be difficult if not impossible to recreate aggregated...
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New OS (Windows 7 in this case) and new issues when trying to connect to Analysis Services on a remote server. I installed Windows 7 and added it to a corporate domain. I can use SSMS to connect to some SSAS servers but there was one server (the most important of course) which refused the connections...
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We are excited to announce the availability of an online Analysis Services 2008 class – no travel, no hotel expenses, just 100% content delivered right to your desktop ! This intensive 3-day online class (14 training hours) is designed to help you become proficient with Analysis Services 2008 and...
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After retiring Office Web Components (OWC), which can hardly can pass the web test as it is implemented as an ActiveX control, Microsoft left developers with no web-based browser for Analysis Services. True, for those who can afford the hefty price tag, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) supports...
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Relax…this blog is all about Analysis Services and not about polygamy or something worse. SSAS 2005 went beyond the "classic" OLAP model by introducing flexible dimension-to-measure group relationships, including many-to-many, referenced, fact relationships. M2M relationships can solve some...
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Yet another relative dates implementation in an Analysis Services cube. So far, I've implemented two. But I'm now starting a project to implement an accounting (G/L) cube and the traditional relative date approach where each relative date is calculated for the current member in the Date dimension...
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Reporting Services SQL Server 2008 R2 features reports as Atom data feeds. This is accomplished with a new Atom Data Feed extension, as shown on this screenshot. This extension produces an atom service document (an *.atomsvc file). It lists at least one data feed for each data region in a report. In...