Question

SSAS Drillthrough Action returns empty data set

Asked by: srwoehrle

Hello,
I have seen the AdventureWorks 2008 sample and tried to create a drillthrough action in my cube like MS did but I simply get an empty data set when choosing the drill option from the cube browser.   What should I look into to solve the problem?   I am a member of a role that has full admin privs to the cube so I don't think this is related to role problems with drill down that I have seen on the web.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Sean

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Answers

 

by: agandauPosted on 2009-09-03 at 11:21:24ID: 25253385

How is the drillthrough set up?  Check these things:

Is it an action, a drillthrough action, or a reporting action?
Does your cube have more than one measure group?  If so make sure that the measure group set up as the target is related to the requested dimension information.  (Although I would guess in this case it still might return data, or not display the drill through action upon right clicking the cell in the browser.)

Are you sure the design you have in BIDS is the same as what's deployed to the server?

Maybe your best bet it to run a trace against the Analysis Server while you perform the drill through, and then look at the statement it actually executed.  Maybe something obvious will appear at that point.

 

by: srwoehrlePosted on 2009-09-03 at 12:07:23ID: 25253869

Hello.   It is a drillthrough action.   Yes my cube has multiple measure groups.    One is working and another is not.    On the one that is not the dimensions are related in the cube usage table.   We browse by these dimensions with the fact all the time.

The design is the same as what is on the SSAS server.   I used the connect to AS database option in Visual Studio and save changes to update the ASDB on the server.

One more interesting thing, for my action that works, I can only get the drillthrough option on the base cube and not a perspective.   Do you have any idea why?  In the AWorks 08 samples their drills work on perspectives fine and I don't see the difference between theirs and mine.

I will try the trace on both and see if that gives any insight.

Thanks,
Sean

 

by: srwoehrlePosted on 2009-09-03 at 12:39:06ID: 25254187

agandu,

The perspective thing was easy to fix, I just did not check it in the perspectives tab.    I did run a trace.   The structure of both the working and not working mdx looked the same.   Both ran in SSMS also, but the bad action's mdx returned no data.

One difference I see is that the bad action goes against a synonym in the dsv, while the good action has a view for its measure group source.    One would think this would not matter, but the paritions tab shows the bad measure group has 0 for row count.   There is data I see in the cube browser for it though.   The agg table shows the # of partitions and parition size.  

Thanks,
Sean

 

by: agandauPosted on 2009-09-03 at 14:00:01ID: 25254895

By a synonym you mean a calculation in the DSV, or a named query?  I agree - that should not matter.

In the DSV click the table producing the "bad measure group" and select "Explore Data".  Any surprises there?

 

by: srwoehrlePosted on 2009-09-03 at 14:46:45ID: 25255298

agandu,
I meant the DSV used a named query that referenced a synonym in the from clause.   The data looks fine in the DSV.

I did just figure out the problem.    I deleted and recreated the partition.  I think tinkered with the ignore unrelated dimensions attribute.  

For the bad measure group action
I deleted and recreated the partition and agg design.   No impact
Originally I had the ignore unrelated dimensions attribute set to true
I changed tit o false, made no difference to the action
I changed back to true and the action worked.

The funny thing is that my other measure group whose action worked all has the ignore unrelated flag set to false.

I saw something on a forum Mosha wrote about this so I had tried it earlier.   I am not sure if it was just turning the flag on or or that fixed the issue or recreating the partition and aggs had an influence.

Anyhow, thanks for giving me some suggestions.

Sean

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