SSAS Help

Question by

Zack

2019-08-06Solved

SSAS Permission

Hi EE,

What permissions do I give a user in SSAS so they are able to assign cube roles to other users?

Any assistance is welcome.

Thank you.

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Hi. I have a user trying to connect remotely to our MS SQL 2016 SSAS with SQL Server Management Studio and she receives the following error:

The system cannot contact a domain controller to service the authentication request. Please try again later (Microsoft.AnalysisServices.AdomdClient)

Note that I can connect successfully using another user account (standard domain user) on the same machine and even within the same user session (just using "run as different user").
Also, the same user account can login successfully using SSMS locally on the SQL server (via RDP).

I am trying to get the connection logs on the SQL server but I don't know where to find them.
It's only happening for this user. Do you have any idea?
I would at least need to find the logs on the SQL server.
Thanks.

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I'm trying to write an MDX query that returns 1 aggregated row of data based on a portion of a row value. Kinda of like slicing via a dimension attribute that doesn't exist by itself.

Here is the MDX Query I have so far

SELECT  {  [Measures].[PnL],   [Measures].[Hire Rate],  [Measures].[TCE],  [Measures].[Offhire Days],  [Measures].[Net Days]  } ON COLUMNS,
															  { ([Voyage].[Vessel Tag].[Vessel Tag].ALLMEMBERS ) } ON ROWS 
														 FROM ( SELECT ( { [Date].[Year].&[2018] } ) ON COLUMNS FROM 
																			( SELECT ( {  
																							FILTER
																							(
																								[Voyage].[Vessel Tag].[Vessel Tag].ALLMEMBERS,
																								(
																								   Instr([Voyage].[Vessel Tag].CurrentMember.Name,'20K DWT') > 0 									
																								)
																							)
																					  }   ) ON COLUMNS 
																				 FROM [cubeVoyageResults])) 
		
																 WHERE ( {[Voyage].[Module Type].&[Spot], [Voyage].[Module Type].&[TC Relet]},  [Date].[Year].&[2018])

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I get all the 20K DWT variations but I just want one 20K DWT row not all its sub variations.

Is there a way to do that?

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Cannot establish AdomdConnection in my ASP MVC C# application via the msmdpump.dll at all to connect to my cube

However if i use the same connection strings credentials to log into the Cube via Excel I have no problem.

Its gives me an "Object not set to an instant of an object"

lsConnectionString = "Provider=msolap; Persist Security Info=True; Data Source=\"https://reporting.q88.com\"; Initial Catalog=" + InitialCatalog + "; Cube=" + CubeName + "; User ID=HI\\vmDemo; Password=vmPassword1";

using (AdomdConnection connection = new AdomdConnection(lsConnectionString))
{
         connection.Open();
 }

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I tried various logins but still the same result. Any ideas?

and here is a stacktrace

at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.AdomdClient.HttpStream.ImpersonateLogonIdentityAndExecute(Action action)
   at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.AdomdClient.HttpStream.GetRequestStream()
   at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.AdomdClient.HttpStream.Write(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size)
   at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.AdomdClient.CompressedStream.Write(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size)
   at System.IO.StreamWriter.Flush(Boolean flushStream, Boolean flushEncoder)
   at System.IO.StreamWriter.Flush()
   at System.Xml.XmlTextWriter.Flush()
   at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.AdomdClient.XmlaClient.EndRequest(Boolean useBinaryXml)
   at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.AdomdClient.XmlaClient.SendMessage(Boolean endReceivalIfException, Boolean readSession, Boolean

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Hi EE,

My developer is trying to resolve the error: A connection cannot be made to redirector. Ensure the 'SQL Browser Service is running'

Troubleshooting so far:

- Restarted the SSAS service and SQL browser,
- Allowed inbound connections on port 2832,2833 for the SQL Server Browser.
- A can log into the SSAS instance fine using the DC1DEVRPT01\DC1DEVRPT01 via SSMS.
- Gave the SSAS service dedicated port 3100, no fix. Although I am not sure I'm entering in the connection string correction:

Any chance this could be a permissions thing? I'm using Visual Studio 2017.

Attached is the error message and my config for SSAS.

Any assistance is welcome.

Thank you.
msmdsrv.ini
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I have a long running query because it is reading a very large database. The issue is there is a string of codes that each have an order number. There can be as many as 30 on a line. The order is then matched to another table to get the actual value. What is the best way to loop through this row to get the codes for all of the 20 values. This is an SQL statement.

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We have an ETL process that populates a star schema database and then proceeds to create cubes. Problem being its blowing out the star schema ad re doing everything for scratch every single time. Which is incredibly time consuming. We are using SQL Server SSAS 2014 Standard. Is there a way not to do this anymore and just update the information that has changed?

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need to to understand the physical structure of an OLAP database. And if I looked into a Oracle database, how can I tell if it's relational or OLAP? Isn't the OLAP data still stored in a table with keys that join to the other tables? I'm having a hard time picturing the structure and then I know querying is different too.

For years I heard these data warehouse jockeys talking about cubes, dimensions, and measures, craftily convincing the IT managers they know what they are talking about, and impressing the users that "this is the thing." But it always confused me. So I watched a few videos today, and the light bulb goes off - "oh, it's a pivot table".

btw, the cube is a nifty visual for a powerpoint presentation, but it's still presented in two-dimensions (piece of paper or a computer screen). Unless you have a 3-D printer I suppose ...

So I got the concept of measures, dimensions, etc., but now need to "get the picture" in what the data actually looks like and how to query it. I know this is bigger than one post here, but that's my objective.

For example, here's my confusion - I was also told today that an OLAP database is NOT relational in essence, it's totally different. In this article, you have
- the time dimension
- the product dimension
- the customer dimension
- the Fact table (total $ sales, quantity, discount)

BUT - don't all the dimension have keys that link it to the fact …

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Question by

CaptainGiblets

2018-08-16Solved

Azure hybrid connection to SQL analysis services

Hi, we are using Azure Hybrid connection to connect to our internal SQL server from an Azure web app. This works without issue, however we now have a requirement to connect to an SQL Analysis Services database from Azure.

We have created a connection using the same hybrid connector install and the status is coming back as "Connected". In our web.config file we are connecting to the analysis server using the string <add name="MyConnection" connectionString="Provider=MSOLAP;Data Source=SQLSERVERNAME:2383;Initial Catalog=DBName;" />

When we try to reference the connection string we are getting the error message "An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions 127.0.0.65:2383"

This same web page connects to the internal SQL server fine.

We have tried setting up logging, enabling debug logs for the connection manager and looking in the SQL xp_readerrorlog but cant see anything that stands out.

Any help in getting this to work would be appreciated.

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How would you edit the following formula to count only Distinct items nested within the containsrow function...

OHA_OHP = CALCULATE(COUNTROWS(Data),FILTER(Data,Data[CaseType]="Face to Face"), DISTINCTCOUNT(Data[WorkType]),CONTAINSROW({"IMA OHP OffSite","OHP OnSite","IMA Network OHP","OHP Review 30 Minutes", "OHP Case Teleconference call (40 mins)"},Data[WorkType]))

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We are using SSAS 2016 Enterprise

We are building a mega cube with multiple companies data and we want to partition by Company.
We also will want to schedule separate ETL schedules for each company.

Question is in the event there is failure from a partition perspective will that take down the entire cube? In the event the data from one company goes wonky?

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hi,

is it possible to connection Oracle OLAP , Oracle application server, Oracle BI answer and BI server to MS SQL ?

we are thinking about what if we just migrate Oracle DB to MS SQL DB and left the rest untouched.

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Hi, I am connecting to SSAS data cube (tabular model) from Excel. This is company's operational data. I am wondering if there are any templates I can reuse to visualize data. What is the best place to start? Any books/video suggestions, other resources?

Thank you in advance.

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When communicating with SSAS msmdpump via SOAP requests Analysis services returns with Content-Types that are compressed and in binary XML (Content_type: xs+xpress).

We would like to include an extra layer of abstraction between the client and Analysis services and would like to know if there is a way to have Analysis services send back plain XML or how to read the xs+xpress content-types.

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Is there a way in SSAS 2016 and the latest version of Excel 2016 to add a value to the Description property of a Dimension Attribute and have that render as a tooltip when hovering over it in Excel?

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I have an excel 2016 pivot table that is using a data connection to an ssas 2012 Olap cube

When I try to add a timeline slicer I get the dreaded

We can't create a timeline for this report because it doesn't have a field formatted as a date

I do have an order date attribute that is defined as a date field on the dimCalendar table

I have done some research and found some possible causes

one possible issue mentioned is that the field may have blank or invalid dates.
(I double checked this is not the case in my data)

The other was that the field needed to have the

ValueColumn of the date key to use an actual date field from the underlying SQL table. The KeyColumn is an integer and the NameColumn is WChar. and to set the ValueColumn to use type Date

I validated this was true as well

Anyone have some other thoughts

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The attribute key cannot be found when processing: Table: 'dbo_FACT_PROD_QTY', Column: 'CONTRACT_RATE_KEY', Value: '0'. The attribute is 'CONTRACT_RATE_KEY'.
The attribute key was converted to an unknown member because the attribute key was not found. Attribute CONTRACT_RATE_KEY of Dimension: ContractRateLevel f

- I can process the dimension (ContractRateLevel), that the Fact table is pointing to with no problem.
- The dbo_Fact_Prod_Qty table does have Nulls in column Contract_Rate_Key.
- There are no Null values in the Dimension table: ContractRateLevel.

Can someone help, as I don't have this issue with my test cube, and the Fact table as NULL values for the same column.

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I want Excel to prompt me each and every time for credentials each time i try to connect to the cubes. I don't want them saved ever.

Where does that setting live?

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the two servers involved are sql 2014 and sql 2016
Our billing system is an OLTP database and it is very hard to report off of. I have been reading on OLAP and ssas. Is there a good manual or starting place for a rookie to try to overcome the reporting issues.
any ideas on should i start with trying to use ssas or creating an olap database from the online transactional database.

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Question by

isames

2018-03-01Solved

SQL Data Cube

All,

I'm getting the following error when I try and process my SQL data cube:

Errors in the OLAP storage engine: A duplicate attribute key has been found when processing: Table: 'dbo_DIM_GEO', Column: 'CITY', Value: 'COLUMBUS'. The attribute is 'CITY'.

How do I correct the issue?

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Power BI desktop and url connection to SSAS cubes using the http msmdpump.dll. How to?

We have a url setup that gives a user access to our SSAS Cubes in Excel. That works fine no problem. (http://olap.mycubes.com)

But now we have a new user that needs to do the same thing in Power BI.

When I enter the URL in the prompt for server it gives me an "unsupported data format" error.

How do go about doing this for Power BI?

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I have a blocking report (Blocking Detected On Production Server), Can anybody please help me understand that?

Here are the details:-

Session_id || Status || blocking_session_id || wait_type || wait_resource || WaitSec || cpu_time || Logical_reads || reads || writes
156 || Suspended || 137 || LCK_M_IS || OBJECT: 18:925246351:4 || 172.660000 || 7 || 204 || 66 || 0 ||

Anything more about this will be very helpful.

Thanks in Advance.

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Question by

lankapala

2018-01-29Solved

Dimension Usage issue

Hi,
I have invoice Header and Invoice Line Details fact Tables.
After creating Cube Invoice Header is working fine.
But Invoice Details not working properly, for example all are showing same value.(repeating)
In the invoice Header have customerID, But Invoice Details Don't have CustomerID.
Invoice Header Customer ID connected with DimCustomer,but invoiceline not connected with DimCustomer Table.

Note: FactInvoiceHeader and FactInvoiceLine connected with Invoice Number
I tried to use Dimension Usage to connect but it's not working, Any idea how to connect with this

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I want to create a cube that encompasses all companies. But there is security concern about a user accessing data across companies when the users access the cube via excel etc...

Having a unified cube would greatly give us granularity across time. (some companies sell assets to other companies so this would make sense when slicing the data to get accurate numbers.

Would a feasible solution be to add a company dimension and somehow hide it..or implement some kind of partitioning?

Any general suggestions would be helpful.

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I am fairly new to PowerPivot in Excel and I was wondering about how you could use two tables of unrelated data in a pivot table. I understand about how you can relate two tables like Customer and CustomerOrder that share a common key, but what about something like this:

Claims Table:
Claim Number
Claim Type
Year of Loss
State
County
Zip Code

Population Table:
Population Count
Year of Census
State
County
Zip Code

There isn't a true key that connects these Tables but they have many fields in common. So if I was to list Florida Hurricane claims by loss year in a Pivot table is there any way to also list the Population for Florida for the same years? Is there a solution that would automatically switch if I changed from State = Florida to County = DUVAL? Could this be done with a DAX expression?

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