OLAP cube - formula length

Hi

dear all,

does anybody know the maximum length for an mdx formula for a calculated member in SSAS?

Kind regards

Frederikm

No hard limit in SSAS 2005.|||

Hi

i find this kind of hard to believe...

I have a formula with over 4000 characters... processing this cube is impossible

the formula is a formula in the form of iif(errorcheck, 0, iif(errorcheck,0... etc

if i use the basic formula without the iif's the cube processes without any problems....

Kind regards

|||There is a syntax error in your formula somewhere, and the error message should give you an idea about location of this error. The syntax error is the real cause of why your cube doesn't deploy, not the length of the formula.|||

Hi

about the max length: is this tied to any service pack version? we are using sp1
also the thing is that there is no error in the formula,
for when we use it in a normal mdx query it works without any problem...
only when in the cube things go wrong

|||The fact that it works inside MDX query means that there is no problem with the length. What is the exact error message you are getting when you are trying to deploy cube with such calculated member ?

OLAP cube - errorhandling

Dear all

i have inherited a SSAS 2k5 cube with a large number of calculated members.

I have a number of problems:

sometimes the calculated amounts are very very small like: 0.00000000000034.

This however, does not play nicely with excell... heximal display and so on. anyone know of a way to show these as being 0?

secondly

I have a number of calculated members who themselves contain calculated measures.

When one of their parents is 0, they resort into div/0 erros, etc

For my current project it is unacceptable that these errors are visible for the end user

is there any way that i can catch all the errors at once? or do in eed to include iif statements in the calculations of each calculated member?

Hi, unfortunately you need to put IIF statements around them. For example direct queries from the cube.

with

member measures.test as

0.000000003

member measures.test2 as

IIF(measures.test<0.00001,0,measures.test)

member measures.test3 as

0

member measures.test4 as

IIF(measures.test3=0,0,measures.test/measures.test3)

select {measures.test2,measures.test4} on 0 from [mycube]

or calculated members on the cube

CREATE MEMBER CURRENTCUBE.[MEASURES].[PercentUnavailable] as

IIF([Measures].[Total Count]=0,0,[Measures].[Total Unavailable])*100/[Measures].[Total Count]),

visible=1;

John

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Alternative which will perform better in cases where you have a large number of these is to use the format statement

member measures.test as

0.000000003,format='#.00'

OLAP Connectivity

Hello all,

We have Analysis Services 2000 with an OLAP cube. The cube has a role allowing access to all Windows domain users. From my development workstation we can connect to the cube, using Excel or a HTML page with the Office Web component, logged on as any user. However, from any other computer in the domain, and logged on with the same users, we cannot create a connection; the OLAP server is not visible!

The client computers are all the same: Windows 2000 Pro and the users all belong to the domain.

Why can we not connect? Has anybody ever experienced this sort of problem? We need to solve this by Monday, our deadline to show our OLAP application to the users. I would really appreciate somebody's help.

Thanks in advance,

Jerome Smith

Have all other workstations pivot table services installed, that is the local client that SSAS 2000 requires? It muste be the same version(service pack) as the server.

It is not sufficient with Excel installed on each client, you also need pivot table services.

You can download this add in for Excel: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=DAE82128-9F21-475D-88A4-4B6E6C069FF0&displaylang=en

HTH

Thomas Ivarsson

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Hello Thomas,

I thought that PTS was included in Office. At least that's what the manual for the MS-2074 course says, and I have always been able to connect to Analysis Servers from Excel and FrontPage, and in different companies.

The download you referred me to is actually not PTS but the Excel Add-In for Analysis Services, which affords enhanced functionality but does not solve the problem.

What I really need to do is connect to the OLAP cube from a HTML page with the OLAP web component, included in Office and also in FrontPage.

Thank you for your time.

Regards,

Jerome Smith

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Like I have told you earlier, PTS is not installed by default. Install it on the machines that do not work and see if this helps.

The download of the Excel add in will include PTS.

If you are trying to do a http-connection then it is a different story. Office web components are ActiveX and do not use http by default.

Regards

Thomas Ivarsson

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OK Thomas,

I'll try this.

Thanks,

Jerome

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Good luck. If this is not the problem return with more information and we can continue with other causes.

Regards

Thomas Ivarsson

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Hi Thomas,

Well, actually I managed to deploy the application on almost all client PCs WITHOUT installing PTS. Just as I thought, PTS comes included with Office, so it is almost never necessary to install PTS.

The problem was never solved on some developer's notebooks in the IT department; we couldn't connect to the AS Server, no matter what we did (including installing the Add-In from the link you gave me).

It beats me why. I wish I knew. Any ideas?

Jerome

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OLAP connection problems

I have two systems setup with SQL Server 2000 + Analysis Services. Both servers have been patched with both SP3a patches.

I wrote a trivial command line app that tests connection strings through ADO.

On each system, I can connect locally perfectly using the connection string:
"Provider=MSOLAP;Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=FoodMart 2000"

However, once I change "Data Source" to refer to the other system, the call to ADODB.Connection.Open throws a "System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException" with message: "Unspecified error". (The simple app is written in C# and talks to ADO through Interop)

I've tried referencing ADO 2.1, ADO 2.5 and ADO 2.7
I've tried a "Provider" of "MSOLAP.2" as well as just "MSOLAP"
I've also tried a variety of different connection strings with many different permissions settings.

It is very frustrating to get an absolutely generic error message.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!Have you tried adding "User ID=xxx;Password=xxx"

or

"Integrated Security=SSPI"|||Yes, just retried all of them and they all result in the same System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException, "Unspecified error"

adomdtest "Provider=MSOLAP;Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=FoodMart 2000"
adomdtest "Provider=MSOLAP;Data Source=192.168.128.53;Initial Catalog=FoodMart 2000"
adomdtest "Provider=MSOLAP;Data Source=192.168.128.53;Integrated Security=SSPI;Initial Catalog=FoodMart 2000"
adomdtest "Provider=MSOLAP;Data Source=192.168.128.53;User Id=sa;Password=xxxx;Initial Catalog=FoodMart 2000"|||Let me reclarify. This one works fine:

adomdtest "Provider=MSOLAP;Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=FoodMart 2000"

These (that reference another system) fail with System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException, "Unspecified error":

adomdtest "Provider=MSOLAP;Data Source=192.168.128.53;Initial Catalog=FoodMart 2000"
adomdtest "Provider=MSOLAP;Data Source=192.168.128.53;Integrated Security=SSPI;Initial Catalog=FoodMart 2000"
adomdtest "Provider=MSOLAP;Data Source=192.168.128.53;User Id=sa;Password=xxxx;Initial Catalog=FoodMart 2000"

I experience the same effect from two systems; either system can open its own database but can't open a remote one.|||Can't think of anything here...Maybe these links can give you some ideas?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/trblsql/agtroubleshoot_8wfm.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/trblsql/agtroubleshoot_64fb.asp

OLAP Connection in c#

Hello,

I'm trying to connect to my OLAP Cube with a c# project.

This is my code:

private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)

{

ADODB.ConnectionClass conn=new ConnectionClass();

conn.Open(ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["connection_string"].ToString(),ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["user_conn"].ToString(),ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["password_conn"].ToString(),0);

try

{ADOMD.CellsetClass cs=new CellsetClass();

cs.ActiveConnection=conn;

string szMDX="";

szMDX += "SELECT ";

szMDX += "{[Measures].members} ON COLUMNS,";

szMDX += "[CAMPAGNE].[Dim CAMPAGNE].members ON ROWS";

szMDX += " FROM [My Roi]";

cs.Open(szMDX,conn); // here there is an error

}

I've receive this error message:

"Impossible to use this connexion to make this operation, the connexion is closed or invalid in this context".

Can you help me please, because I can't find the problem.

Thanks,

Have you tried changing the provider in the connection string to MSOLAP.1 or MSOLAP.2 and did you verify that either TRUSTED_CONNECTION=YES or INTEGRATED SECURITY=SSPI is included?

OLAP Connection error

Below code at web.config file, when i change Data Source to other pc name....an error occur 'The data provider didn't supply any further error information'...
let said change the datasource 'localhost' to 'webserver' error will occur...so i cannot run the program at my pc and link the olap database at server...

<add key="OLAPConnectionString" value="Provider=MSOLAP.2;Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=Foodmart 2000;" />The other PC that you are trying to connect should have the same users and user rights as the first one.

In addition to that, the Analysis Server on your second PC should know about these users as well.

I found that security with Analysis Server is very tight.

Good Luck

OLAP Connection Error

Hi,
Background :
Am trying to connect to the OLAP Cubes from a Web Service.
The Web Service resides on my local machine, while the Analysis Server resid
es on a different domain.
Users have been created on the Analysis Server, and roles have been defined
for the cube am trying to access.
The processModel is configured with proper user id.
Problem :
When I do that I get an error "Undefined Error".
To my knowledge I have all the access to the Analysis Server, but still am n
ot able to connect to cube.
Could someone please help me resolve this as its very crucial and is hamperi
ng our to a great extent.
Thanks,
SrinivasThe user is created on the Analysis Server, and a role too has been defined
for the user, giving access to the cube.
For example :
Let us suppose my network user id is "ABC". Then a user called "ABC" is crea
ted on the Analysis server, and has been assigned a role.
Srinivas|||microsoft.public.sqlserver.olap is probably a better newsgroup for this, but
my initial guess is that your problem revolves around the statement below
"different domain". AS only supports Windows authentication in direct
client-server mode. You have a few options. First, you could use the old NT
matching-username password trick. If you have *local accounts* on both
systems with the same username password, then you will be able to connect
even if the two machines are in untrusted domains. You will have
administrative issues keeping the two passwords in-sync, but the connection
will go through OK. Second, if you are running on Enterprise Edition, you
can use http access. This will require you to run IIS on the AS server (see
BOL on how to configure it and look at the white paper
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e...ql_datapump.asp for
more technical details.
Hope that helps.
Dave Wickert [MS]
dwickert@.online.microsoft.com
Program Manager
BI Practices Team
SQL BI Product Unit (Analysis Services)
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> Hi,
> Background :
> Am trying to connect to the OLAP Cubes from a Web Service.
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> Users have been created on the Analysis Server, and roles have been

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defined for the cube am trying to access.

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> The processModel is configured with proper user id.
> Problem :
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> To my knowledge I have all the access to the Analysis Server, but still am

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not able to connect to cube.

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> Could someone please help me resolve this as its very crucial and is

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hampering our to a great extent.

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