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SSAS: Class not registered (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80040154...
Today I got this error while trying to browse a cube from the Business Intelligence Development Studio: The detailed error information told me that the connection failed, because the server actively...
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OLAP Reporting with Excel 2007: Use Member Properties!!
Excel 2007 is great tool for browsing OLAP cubes. But 1 thing a lot of people don’t know about or at least don’t use enough, is Member Properties. When they want to add a property of a specific...
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SSAS: Custom format string for “duration” using MDX
I recently struggled with the following challenge in Analysis Services: In one of the fact tables there was a field duration which actually was a duration of a certain status in seconds. I needed to...
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SQL Server Day 2009 videos now available on Chopsticks
Microsoft has made the sessions presented on SQL Server Day 2009 available on Chopsticks Opening Keynote by Wesley Backelant and Ritchie Houtmeyers Best Practices for SQL Server Consolidation by Tom...
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Parent-Child hierarchies in Reporting Services
Reporting Services 2008 is a great reporting tool, but displaying Analysis Services data with Reporting Services doesn’t always display the data as you would expect. A Parent-child hierarchy is one...
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XMLA script to deploy MDX Calculations
At a current project I needed to create a deploy script for the MDX calculations of a cube. SQL Server Management Studio makes it very easy for you to create XMLA-scripts to create or alter cubes,...
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Analysis Services Translations in Performance Point Services (SharePoint 2010)
Last week I had to build some PPS Dashboards in an existing SharePoint 2010 environment. One of the requirements for the dashboards was to support English, Dutch and French. Because the data was loaded...
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