SSAS 2008 and SSAS 2005

I am trying to create a report in SSRS 2008 R2 using SSAS 2005 as a datasource. My dataset has a date parameter. When I create an embedded dataset in my report everything works fine, but when I create a shared dataset with the exact same mdx query, I get the following error: An error occurred during local report processing. The definition of the report 'xxxx' is invalid. The Value expression for the report parameter 'DateCalendarHierarchy' contains an error: [BC30034] Bracketed identifier is missing closing ']'. Does anybody have any ideas? Is this a bug? Thanks, Louis

Are there any known issues of running SSAS 2005 with SQL Server 2008 database engine?

I realize this is probably going to be one of those vague questions that I am not going to get much help on here, but I thought I'd give this a shot before we go the MS Incident route on monday.

We have tried to setup Kerberos between MOSS 2007 AND SSAS 2005 to no avail.  We have been through the knowledge base articles outlining the setup multiple times with all the experts on MOSS and Security here where I work.  We've used other materials we have on kerberos here.  But the end result is that the double hop is not happening.  We are trying to connect three ways: excel services, ssrs 2005 in integrated mode, and Sharepoint KPI's (using analysis services).  In every case the connection is not happening.

Other details are that the ssrs integrated mode seems to be setup right because I do get a report (albiet all it has is a connection error message).  Excel services works fine if I use the unattended service account, but when I switch the odc file to windows (should cause kerberos to kick in) it fails.  When I try to add a kpi to the kpi list it can't retrieve a list of kpi's from ssas.

In all cases I am the user trying to perform these operations, and I have total access to the cube -- I'm the developer.  I have no problems connecting to the cube directly through excel, so the security at that end passes t

Hello Guru's, I'm new to SSAS env. and want to set up its DR env. Can anybody guide me with any good strategis and implementation practices. We are using SSAS 2008 on 2 node Cluster Server. Thank you in Advance.- Nilesh

Hi, I encountered the below listed error while attempting to deploy SSAS 2008 DB: Error 1 OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: Login timeout expired; HYT00; A network-related or instance-specific error has occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. Server is not found or not accessible. Check if instance name is correct and if SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. For more information see SQL Server Books Online.; 08001; Named Pipes Provider: Could not open a connection to SQL Server [5]. ; 08001.  0 0  I am running a standalone MSSQL 2008 named instance on Windows Server 2008 R2. Here are the steps I have taken but yet the issue is not resolve: 1) Enable Remote connections on the server 2) Enable TCP\IP 3) SQL Browser is Running 4) Set Firewall Inbound Exceptions for SQL Browser, Default Port 1433, UDP Port 1434 5) Using Management Studio I can successfully connect to the MSSQL named instance from the app server 6) I can ping I MSSQL box from the app server 7) Read and implemented all steps in the MSDN post below: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sql_protocols/archive/2007/05/13/sql-network-interfaces-error-26-error-locating-server-instance-specified.aspx Thanks for your help.

For certain SQL's I will get the following error when calling the Fill method on an AdomdDataAdapter object. "Memory error: While attempting to store a string, a string was found that was larger than the page size selected. The operation cannot be completed."   Snippet of Code: DataSet ds1 = new DataSet(); AdomdCommand acmd1 = cn1.CreateCommand(); acmd1.CommandText = "SELECT ..."; AdomdDataAdapter ad1 = new AdomdDataAdapter(acmd1); ad1.Fill(ds1);   Now when we run this query in Ms Sql Studio we don't get any errors but the query returns 1 row with over 40,000 columns. I'm guessing the # of columns might be an issue but not sure.   When doing a Google search it appears that this problem was found in the 2005 and fixed in that version. Have any of you come across this problem?  

During our unit and load testing of the SSAS database using VSTST 2010 Ultimate; we are getting a memory error with some of our MDX queries (below).  Futher analysis showed: The adomdDataAdapter "Fill" command is our error point The error is occuring when the result data set has getter than 16,384 Columns; actual returned column count is 41,339 columns - business requirement does not let us change this query at this time. The MDX query works fine in MS Excel 2007 The MDX Query works fine in MS SQL Studio 2008 How can we resolve the unit test data set with such a large column count? Memory error: While attempting to store a string, a string was found that was larger than the page size selected. The operation cannot be completed. In reference to thread: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlanalysisservices/thread/4220adbb-438c-42e7-9612-56aebf8df435/ Thank you, Craig  

Hi, I do have a strange issue with Excel 2007 pivot table report; the data source is SSAS 2008 cube. When refresh the excel 2007 report data using the 'Refresh All' or 'Refresh' button available under the Data menu, the below error is thrown. "The expression contains a function that cannot operate on a set with more than 4,294,967,296 tuples." After some analysis, the report works well on the below workaround, 1. Remove all the calculated measures from report (3 measures in this scenario) 2. Remove one row label (dimension attribute) from report But the measures, attributes are valid one from cube and it is required fields in the report. So, understand that removing few items is not at all a solution. The below workaround also works. 1. Check the 'Defer Layout Update' option from the Pivot Table Field List window. 2. Click on the Update button After that Unchecked the 'Defer Layout Update' option and apply the filter, etc in the report. The report works very well. But every time, we need to use the above work around after open the excel report. I have NO clue on this issue. Please help to resolve this issue. Thanks, Jey

CUBE WRITE BACK in SQL SERVER 2008 R2 Did anybody get the SSAS write back functionality to work against a decent sized datawarehouse? I'm not asking about a little demo but a significant sized footprint e.g. 14M Rows measures, 6-8 wired Dimensions with 8-10 attributes each. I setup a test server using a Dell XEON ( 2x4core) with 48 GB RAM hardware and the latest Sql Server 2008 R2 release. I used the What-If scenario in Excel 2010 and modified a higher level, hoping SSAS would push the values down. After about 15 minutes and after having used 48 GB memory (on average 5% CPU) Excel throw an error - short on memory - and stopped the action. I found the same behavior in Sql server 2005 and 2008 and was hoping this would work now but apparently not so. Here are my questions: Is anybody using this at all? how can one calculated (roughtly) how much memory is requiered? is there any paper that describes best practise? Thanks for any help in advance, Dirk  

The Dimension root  members (below 'ALL') changes after incrementally loading the dimension with 'process_update'.  How do I prevent that from happening ? There was no changes to data of the underlying table of the dimension.   

We are having problems with the dimension attributes in lower level hierarchies not grouping under 1 single level. Here is the hierarchy: VP    College      Department         Departmental Course            Course Level               Course Number The top 3 levels are grouping correctly without duplicate rows and they don't have compoud keys. The lowest 3 levels are not grouped correctly and they have compounds keys because the attributes are not unique by themself. The result of the hierarchy looks like this: VP Academic Affairs    Business School of Management        International Business School            Mgm101                 Lower                       Course Number 123            Mgm101                Upper                

Hello, We have the SQL Server 2008 Analysis services instance with some databases, cubes, Dimensions, Measure groups, partitions, etc. The business users are find difficulty to search for a particular measure. I mean, it is difficult for them locate a measure from the available cubes; again finding the respective Measure Group/ Folder is not an easy task for them. Also, they need to know the source system of a particular attribute in a dimension, formula for the calculated measure and etc. So, we have planned to develop a knowledge repository, which needs to store the business metadata for the SSAS databases. The user needs to be access this information using the SharePoint site and should help them locate and understand the data. The User Interface needs to be user friendly too. I need your valuable suggestions for the design of this system. Note: I have referenced the below articles http://dwbi1.wordpress.com/2010/01/01/ssas-dmv-dynamic-management-view/ http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlanalysisservices/thread/c610850f-16b4-4eaf-9b91-a2d32816f40e

Hi All,I am not sure if I should have posted this query to Excel 2003 forum. But posting it here as it applies to SSAS 2005 as well.Ok, let me give the background before I tell the actual problem.We have users on ABC domain and the SSAS server is also on ABC domain. Users on this domain can acess the excel pivots by connecting to cube to browse the data. They leave the Userid & password field blank while they setup the connection string and it works fine. Thanks to windows authentication that takes the credentials of user logged in. Let's say I have two users A and B, they login to ABC domain with their own windows ids.  Now when user A creates a excel file having a cube pivot and then sends this file to user B, user B can refresh and modify the same excel file (he can select new measures to pivot, new hierarchies in filters and so on).Now, let's say I have another user, user C. He has excel 2003 installed on his PC and cannot migrate to excel 2007. He is on different domain XYZ but have a valid windows userid on domain ABC. The domain ABC & XYZ can not be setup to have trusted relationship. Now, when user A sends the same excel file to user C. When user C opens the file and try to refresh it or try to modify the pivot by selecting/deselecting any elements, he gets below error prompt:" An error was encountered in the transport layer." and "Errors in the

Hi,   I've migrated my SSAS cube from 2005 to 2008 R2. in 2005 I could use the mdx (alter cube currentcube ...) to set the default member based on attribute property of another dimension. With 2208 R2 I'm unable to set the value. The mdx that I'm using in 2005 is as follows: alter cube currentcube update dimension [Time].[Time Hierarchy], default_member = tail(filter([Time].[Time Hierarchy].[Day of Month].members, [Time].[Day of Month].currentmember.membervalue  = CDbl([Cube Defaults].[Default Values].Properties( "Default Time Key" ))), 1)(0); This used to set the default member to whatever the Default Time Key attribute is set to. For ex. 01-Jan-2010 or 01-Jun-2010 etc.  This doesn't work in 2008 R2 anymore and the default member for the Time dimension is set to "All". Any ideas? Do I need to change something in the above script to get it working? All help would be very useful! - Sourabh  

Hi all, I have a data of as number of trasactions,DD, SO, BouncedDD, CancelledDD all are in count (number) while adding these measures manullay to a measure group I have selected usage as DistinctCount for one measure and for all the remaining measures as DiscinctCount.While deploying the cube it shows error as "Fact table canot have more than one distinct count"  

Hello - I am using an excel 2007 odc file to connect to an analysis services 2005 cube (on windows server 2003 R2 OS). I receive the following error message   "Excel was unable to get necessary information about this cube. The cube might have been reorganized or changed on the server" Have already attempted the following fixes but running out of ideas now 1. Added localeIdentifier to ODC file    <odc:ConnectionString>Provider=MSOLAP.3;Integrated Security=SSPI;Persist Security Info=True;Data Source=bisql;Initial Catalog=SLAM ACT BUD; LocaleIdentifier = 1033 </odc:ConnectionString> 2. Ensured that all dimensional attributes which are used in MDX calculations (named sets, calculated members) are set to "AttributeHierarchyEnabled  = True" Running out of steam so any help is greatly appreciated.

While  running migration wizard  to migrate sql 2000 Analysys service DB from 2000 to  2008  Validation step  failing with  datatype mismatch.Please assist me here