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Author: Kris

Checklist for Creating a SSAS Multidimensional Dimension

April 6, 2019 Kris

For the most part, creating a dimension for SSAS is an easy wizard driven process. However, there’s some important steps…

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Posted in: SSAS Development Filed under: Analysis Services, Multidimensional, SSAS

Checklist For Creating a New Analysis Services Project

March 30, 2019 Kris

Setting up a new SSAS Multidimensional project in SSDT is pretty straight forward. There’s a few things to do before…

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Posted in: SSAS Development Filed under: Development, Multidimensional, SSAS

ODBC Destination” failed validation and returned validation status “VS_ISCORRUPT

December 9, 2018 Kris

There seems to be a bug with SQL Server Data Tools 15.8.1+ and the ODBC Destination task.  SSIS reports an error…

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SSRS Subscriptions Retry on Failure

November 3, 2018 Kris

My company has several reports on a shared subscription setup to send once a day.  Recently, two of these reports…

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Posted in: SSRS

SSAS Backup Considerations

October 27, 2018 Kris

Backing up an SSAS database is an important part of a data warehouse maintenance plan.  The backup process is straightforward…

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Using Relog Load Perfmon Data Into a SQL Server Database

October 14, 2018 Kris

Relog is a command line tool that you use to convert the file output created by Perfmon.  It can convert…

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Posted in: SSAS Performance

Creating A Performance Monitor (Perfmon) Data Collector Sets for SSAS

October 13, 2018 Kris

A data collector set is a collection of saved perfmon counters.  Once a data collector set is created it can…

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Posted in: SSAS Performance

Cancelling A Long Running Query in SSAS

October 7, 2018 Kris

Cancelling a query in SSAS is not as straight forward it should be.  There’s not an activity monitor for SSAS…

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Posted in: SSAS Performance

Frequently Used DMVs for SSAS

September 29, 2018 Kris

Brief Overview of SSAS DMVs DMVs are really just queries that return information about the server.  Introduced in SQL Server…

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Posted in: SSAS Performance Filed under: DMVs, Monitoring, SSAS

Perfmon Counters I Collect For SSAS Monitoring

September 22, 2018 Kris

The counters can be grouped in general categories; OS, Processing, and Query.  SSAS is a service running on a Windows OS. …

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Posted in: SSAS Performance Filed under: Monitoring, Perfmon, Performance, SSAS, Tuning

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