Flag on Binary in Tabular Model instead of true & False to Yes and No

I have some flags which are Binary (0/1) and display as True or False in my Tabular Model when browsing in Excel . I would like it to be Yes and No instead . How can I do this in my tabular Model
Moyz Khan

Hi Moyz,
According to your description, you want to submit the feature "Model support to pick the display value for a binary or Boolean so we just configure those values to our choice", right?
In this case, you can submit a feedback at
http://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/Feedback and hope it is resolved in the next release of service pack or product. Your feedback enables Microsoft to make software and services the best that they can be, Microsoft might consider to add this feature
in the following release after official confirmation.
Regards,
Charlie Liao
TechNet Community Support

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Hi All,
I have a SSAS tabular model which has around 42 Dimension table and 10 Fact table each containing some thousands
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I have to write more than 300 measures using DAX.Can anyone please suggest how can I speed up the updation process
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Thanks in Advance.
Sanjay
sanjay

Hi Sanjay,
According to your description, there are around 42 Dimension table and 10 Fact table each containing some thousands of record in your tabular model, so it takes 10-15 minutes time to update the calculation to server, right?
It's default setting to update the modification to server when change something on your tabular model, if the tables contain large data, it will takes long time to update. In your scenario, we recommend you to use Multidimensional database instead of Tabular
model when having large amount of data with complex requirements.
SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) Multidimensional model is used when having large amount of data with complex requirements. In order to improve query performance, there will be a cube doing heavy time-consuming processing and then synchronize it
to query cubes.
However, SSAS Tabular model is used when the data model is relatively simple. So for the large amount data model, we recommend to use Multidimensional database instead of process data on one server then synchronize it to query cubes.
Reference
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Tabular Model Performance Improvements

Hi !
We have a bulitv tabular model inline which has a fact table and 2 dimension tables .The performance of SSRS report is very slow and we have bottle neck in deciding SSRS as reporting tool.
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Hi Bhadri,
As Sorna said, it hard to give you the detail tips to improve the tabular model performance according the limited information. Here are some useful link about performance Tuning of Tabular Models in SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services, please refer to the
link below.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn393915.aspx
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SSAS Tabular Model and browse with MS Excel 2013

I have a tabular model, It has an attribute with datatype and data format as "whole number". When I browse the model from excel and add label filter, it
does not work as expected.
When I specify greater than 180 as label filter, It gives following output:
My guess is that it is just filtering on first two digits "18" and not "180". When I copy these values in a excel sheet and create pivot table on top of it, hell it works fine.
Is this a microsoft bug? have you encountered something like this or I am doing some thing wrong?
I am using tabular model 2012 and excel 2013 or 2010.
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Hi Itz,
According to your description, the filter not works fine in excel for a SQL Server Analysis Services Tabular models, right?
I have tested it on the local environment, we cannot reproduce this issue. As per my understanding, this issue is related to the settings of your tabular model. Does this issue can be reproduce in multiple servers in your environment? In that is
case, from a support perspective this is really beyond what we can do here in the forums. If you cannot determine your answer here or on your own, consider opening a support case with Microsoft. Visit this link to see the various support options that are available
to better meet your needs:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?id=fh;en-us;offerprophone
Besides, if you consider this issue is a bug, you can submit a feedback at
http://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/Feedback Microsoft will confirm if this issue is a bug or not.
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Migrate to the Java 2 security model instead...

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Display Yes / No instead of True or false for radio buttons in SSRS 2008R2

Hi All,
I have one report with two radio buttons as parameters. In the report display I see True / false beside the radio buttons. Is there a way where I can display it as
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Hi sql9,
According to your description, you want to show "Yes" and "No" in Boolean parameter instead of "True" and "False". Right?
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Tabular model process-took 4 HOURS instead of normal 10 minutes

There must be some sort of log I can view or review to get a better look inside the process?
When I refreshed my development project (which is using the same server for workspace) it takes less than 10 or 15 minutes.
Then I deployed it to my server and after 35 minutes I closed out of SSDT BI as it appeared to have frozen.
I then deployed again with no processing.
After that I processed manually through SSMS by using Process (but scripted out) for a process full.
After 12 or so minutes most everything appeared to have processed and the last feedback was on:
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The tabular model seems to be functional, and it is less than 350 MB in size (almost the exact same size of my development workspace model) so I am at a loss as to why the delay like this?
Any suggestions, thoughts?
It returned 40 million rows, but I have other models that return more and process in 3 or 4 minutes so it is very odd (and it isn't 400 million, just 40 million)
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Hi OneWithQuestions,
According to your description, you create a SQL Server Tabular Model project which takes 10 minutes to process in SQL Server Data Tools, the problem is that it takes 4 hours to process this database in SQL Server Management Studio. So you need the detail
log that inside the process, right?
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improve process time.
http://www.mssqlgirl.com/process-full-on-tabular-model-database-via-ssms.html
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Creating Tabular Models using AMO

Hi,
I am trying to setup Tabular Models on SSAS using AMO referring to the materials available at Technet and the Codeplex AMO Tabular Tutorial. I have a few questions/issues
currently and was hoping I could get some help from here. The tool I am working with currently supports Multidimensional mode via AMO and I am trying to extend most of its features from the Multidimensional model. So, some of the questions might not exactly
fit into the Tabular model and if so, please do point them out.
RELATIONSHIPS: While creating relationships among tables,
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latter is the approach mentioned in the tutorial and I wanted to know if there is any difference between the relationships created using the 2 methods.
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OLAP Measure objects in the Tabular model. I understand the shortcomings of this type of measures but I would still need to create them for basic aggregation functions like SUMMATION, COUNTS etc… I tried creating the measures using the same Measure Group that
was created to represent the table and used a ColumnBinding to the Measure’s source-column for the measure object’s source property but I get the following error:
Binding for VertiPaq measure MEASURE_NAME in measure group MEASURE_GROUP_NAME is invalid because it does not match any property binding of the fact dimension
TABLE_NAME
Am I missing anything here? Is there a better way of creating OLAP measures in TABULAR model without using the default Table dimensions that we create?
HIERARCHIES: I tried creating new Dimensions to hold
hierarchies for a table but when creating them, I get the error about MISSING ROWNUMBER attribute. Is this attribute mandatory for every dimension that is created?
To avoid this problem, I used the same dimension that was created to represent the table and tried adding inter-table attribute relationships to it but I get the following exception
message which I cannot figure out.
VertiPaq property ‘’ cannot have a name binding.
In general, can we create separate measure groups and dimensions, apart from the ones we use to represent the table, to store the custom measures and hierarchies? Is this a recommended
approach? This way, I am trying to keep things in parallel with the Multidimensional model that our tool currently supports but when I create such individual dimensions and measure groups, I get an error on the mismatch between the number of measure groups
and dimensions in the table.
Please bear with the long list of questions. I could not find any help online for these and so am posting them all here.
Thank you.

RELATIONSHIPS: While creating relationships among tables,
would it suffice to create the relationship in the Data Source View Schema (as the tool currently does for the Multidimensional mode) or should we explicitly create relationships under the dimensions that we create to represent the table in Tabular mode? The
latter is the approach mentioned in the tutorial and I wanted to know if there is any difference between the relationships created using the 2 methods.
No - relationships in the DSV have no impact on the end model. You need to explicitly create relationships between your dimensions and measure groups for them to be picked up as relationships in your tabular model.
MEASURES: I am trying to create measures using Native OLAP
Measure objects in the Tabular model. I understand the shortcomings of this type of measures but I would still need to create them for basic aggregation functions like SUMMATION, COUNTS etc… I tried creating the measures using the same Measure Group that was
created to represent the table and used a ColumnBinding to the Measure’s source-column for the measure object’s source property but I get the following error:
Binding for VertiPaq measure MEASURE_NAME in measure group MEASURE_GROUP_NAME is invalid because it does not match any property binding of the fact dimension TABLE_NAME
Am I missing anything here? Is there a better way of creating OLAP measures in TABULAR model without using the default Table dimensions that we create?
There is no concept of native measures in a Tabular model. You need to create all your measures as "Calculated Measures" in AMO, but using the appropriate DAX expressions instead of MDX.
HIERARCHIES: I tried creating new Dimensions to hold hierarchies
for a table but when creating them, I get the error about MISSING ROWNUMBER attribute. Is this attribute mandatory for every dimension that is created?
To avoid this problem, I used the same dimension that was created to represent the table and tried adding inter-table attribute relationships to it but I get the following exception message
which I cannot figure out.
VertiPaq property ‘’ cannot have a name binding.
Yes, I believe every table needs the hidden RowNumber attribute. The
TableAddEmptyTable function in the tabular AMO sample on codeplex shows you how to create this.
In general, can we create separate measure groups and dimensions, apart from the ones we use to represent the table, to store the custom measures and hierarchies? Is this a recommended
approach? This way, I am trying to keep things in parallel with the Multidimensional model that our tool currently supports but when I create such individual dimensions and measure groups, I get an error on the mismatch between the number of measure groups
and dimensions in the table.
No you can't create any extra structures. Tabular projects only supports a subset of AMO. You need to follow the example on codeplex very closely and read all the code comments if you are making changes because it's very easy to break things.
My suggestion is to create an abstraction layer either using the TabularAMO library from codeplex as it is or creating your own library if you only need a subset of the functionality. This will mean that your core code is not too tightly bound to AMO. The
reason for this is that I would hope that MS will replace AMO with something better for Tabular models in a coming release and having a clear abstraction layer should make it easier to update to a new API.
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Using IF or SWITCH functions inside a DAX formula into a tabular model - SSAS 2012

Hi,
in a tabular model I've changed a DAX formula introducing the SWITCH function, but when I deploy the changed formula and open the Excel workbook the slicer connected to the pivot table doesn't highlight the slicer values involved as instead of old formula.
Any suggests to me in order to maintain the right behaviour for the slicers when a formula is re-written using an IF/SWITCH functions, please?
Thanks

I think that is the default behaviour and I can find a few justifications for it too...
For eg, if you have a complex IF condition, the measure will have to be evaluated for each value of the slicer for correctly finding the right values in the slicer to highlight, and that can make it REALLY slow.
Also, sometimes there is no correct values to highlight. For eg, if I have the products in the slicer and have a condition like
=IF(HASONEVALUE(Product[Product]),1)
then which Product should be highlighted? There is no correct value as any one of the Product selected on it's own will display value for the measure. And more than one products selected will display no value. So no matter what you display/highlight on the
slicer, there is no "correct" behaviour. In such a case, it is best left to display/highlight all values.
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How to have a Total dimension element from tabular model?

Hi,
I have a dimension in a tabular model named School. I created a parameter that has all the schools based on a DAX query dataset, however I would also like to include a Total element that sums all the schools. How can this be achieved? In SSAS OLAP I would
have an "ALL" elements, but I'm not sure how this translates into Tabular Mode.
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Sure, I am creating reports in reporting services. I am creating datasets to retrieve each dimension members that exist in the fact table to create parameters that will filter the data dataset.
Now imagine, I select a Year and then I want to be able to select an element like "all schools" to check the aggregate number of subscriptions instead of only 1 of the schools.

Tabular model: First deployment to server takes 120 min to process, subsequent ProcessFull 15 min?

I have noticed this several times now and I do not understand it.
I have a model with ~45 million rows in the largest table and the first time I deploy to the server and then execute a ProcessFull (via script) it takes over two hours to complete.
*Note when I deploy from BIDS I have it set as Processing Option: Do Not Process. So it doesn't process until I explicitly call it.
However, the next day (or could be later same day) I kick off the same ProcessFull and it finishes in 15 minutes.
So it appears the FIRST time it is deployed (as in the model did not exist historically, prior to deployment there was no tabular database called "MyTestModel" on the server) it takes an extremely long time.
Subsequent ProcessFulls are very quick.
Why is that? Has anyone else encountered that?
When I watch the progress of the process full script I see it finishes retrieving all the data in a relatively decent amount of time, for example the 45 million row table:
Finished processing the 'BigTableWith45MillionRows' table.
So I know it has completed all its data retrieval operations.
Then it moves onto:
Processing of the 'Model' cube has started.
Processing of the 'ACCOUNT' measure group has started.
and many more various measure groups
later I get:
Finished processing the 'ACCOUNT' measure group.
Finished processing the 'Model' cube.
It moves onto to it's "CALCULATE;" statements at that point with "CREATE MEMBER CURRENTCUBE.Measures".... and so forth.
It would be most helpful if I could see which ones it had started but not yet stopped (it appears to "Started processing the 'random' hierarcy" or calculated column, or whatever and then a few lines later it will say "Finished" but other
than looking through them all by hand and matching up every Started with Finished trying to find one with OUT a "Finished" I have no way of knowing which are still processing.
It would be helpful to know "item X takes 2 hours to finish processing"
It tends to take the longest amount of time in the processing hierarchy and calculated column phase.

The default events in profiler are fine. You will likely focus on Progress Report End. How are you running ProcessFull? An XMLA script or from right-clicking on the database or from right clicking on a table and selecting all tables?
http://artisconsulting.com/Blogs/GregGalloway
Right click on database, go to process, select process full and then script (single database not each table).
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Processxmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/analysisservices/2003/engine">
<
Type>ProcessFull</Type>
<
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Object>
</
Process>
I finished a full process yesterday and captured the info.
The biggest for CPUTime (I noticed duration would be long but no CPU time, it seemed like it would flag things as having started but due to dependencies they just sat and waited?)
was my larger hierarchy: Progress Report End, for CPU time of 11925840ms or 3.3 hours. Duration was 11927999ms.
After that was my 45 million row table at CPU time 715296 and duration of 860773 or 14 minutes.
It is interesting because a normal ProcessFull is ~15 minutes, so it seems that the hierarchy rebuild is what is "killing me" on these.
A variety of Object Created events had high durations but NULL CPU time, seems like those were dependant on earlier events maybe??
Regardless, my big hierarchy was the longest at the 3.3 hours.
It has 173,000 unique rows in the hierarchy (again like Account primary, secondary, though 6 or so levels deep, 1.2.3.4.5.6 etc...)

Deploying SSAS Tabular Model (2014)

Hi,
I'm trying to deploy my model with Microsoft.AnalysisServices.Deployment.exe
This works locally, but when I try on our test servers then it does not work.
Strangely enough it tells me that it was all successful....
Exactly the same result locally as on test server.
but on my computer it is really deployed but on test server it isn't....
Any one an idea how I could debug this?
Kr,
Sammy

Hi Sammy,
According to your description, you are using Microsoft.AnalysisServices.Deployment.exe to deploy the tabular model. It can't deploy successfully on test server. Right?
In this scenario, since the Deployment Utility didn't throw any error when deploying, the deployment supposed to be executed successfully. Please confirm you connect the correct SQL Server instance. Also please try to deploy via command prompt instead of
using user interface. You can choose silent mode and it can generate a log file for your further analysis.
Reference:
Deployment Utility (Analysis Services - Multidimensional Data)
SSAS Tabular Model Deployment
If you have any question, please feel free to ask.
Best Regards,
Simon Hou

SSRS report with tabular model - MDX query to filter parameter data based on Tuple value.

Hello Everyone,
I am working on SSRS report in which a tabular model is being used as a backend.
I want to filter the report parameters which are dependent to other parameters. Like, country, state, and cities drop downs.
All are multi-select parameters. I am using MDX queries to filter the parameters data.
Based on selected one or more countries, the data of states needs to be filtered.
The point is the text which is being displayed in state dropdown for each state name is combination of 3 different members.
So, I created the following Tuple for the same and can see the expected display names in states dropdown.
"("+
[Location].[Code 1].CURRENTMEMBER.UNIQUENAME +","+
[Location].[Code 2].CURRENTMEMBER.UNIQUENAME +","+
[Location].[Descr].CURRENTMEMBER.UNIQUENAME +")"
Now, when I would like filter the cities data based on selected one or more states, I am unable to pass the multiple Tuples (more than one selected Tuples) as parameter for cities dropdown.
The following is my query for City parameter. It is working well when I select only one State from the dropdown.
However, when I select multiple states, it is unable to convert the Tuple into SET in ELSE part of IIF condition specified in following query.
Can anybody help me how to resolve the error that I am getting about STRTOSET function?
Or
Are there any other alternatives to achieve this requirement?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Query:
WITH MEMBER [Measures].[ParameterCaption] AS [City].[City Business].CURRENTMEMBER.MEMBER_CAPTION
MEMBER [Measures].[ParameterValue] AS [City].[City Business].CURRENTMEMBER.UNIQUENAME
MEMBER [Measures].[ParameterLevel] AS [City].[City Business].CURRENTMEMBER.LEVEL.ORDINAL
SELECT {[Measures].[ParameterCaption], [Measures].[ParameterValue], [Measures].[ParameterLevel]} ON COLUMNS ,
[City].[City Business].Children ON ROWS
FROM (
SELECT ( STRTOSET(@State, CONSTRAINED) ) ON COLUMNS FROM [Model])
WHERE ( IIF( STRTOSET(@State).Count= 1,
STRTOTUPLE(@State, CONSTRAINED),
STRTOSET("{
("+
[Location].[Code 1].CURRENTMEMBER.UNIQUENAME +","+
[Location].[Code 2].CURRENTMEMBER.UNIQUENAME +","+
[Location].[Descr].CURRENTMEMBER.UNIQUENAME
+ ")
}",CONSTRAINED )) ) CELL PROPERTIES VALUE
Thanks, Ankit Shah
Inkey Solutions, India.
Microsoft Certified Business Management Solutions Professionals
http://www.inkeysolutions.com/MicrosoftDynamicsCRM.html

Hi,
I used following dynamic query in expression of dataset of parameter and it works like a charm.
"WITH MEMBER [Measures].[ParameterCaption] AS [City].[City Business].CURRENTMEMBER.MEMBER_CAPTION "&
"MEMBER [Measures].[ParameterValue] AS [City].[City Business].CURRENTMEMBER.UNIQUENAME "&
"MEMBER [Measures].[ParameterLevel] AS [City].[City Business].CURRENTMEMBER.LEVEL.ORDINAL "&
"SELECT {[Measures].[ParameterCaption], [Measures].[ParameterValue], [Measures].[ParameterLevel]} ON COLUMNS , " &
"[City].[City Business].Children ON ROWS " &
" FROM [Model] WHERE ({"& join(Parameters!Location.Value,",") &"}) CELL PROPERTIES VALUE"
Thanks, Ankit Shah
Inkey Solutions, India.
Microsoft Certified Business Management Solutions Professionals
http://www.inkeysolutions.com/MicrosoftDynamicsCRM.html

Report using Tabular Model and Measures based on Distinct Counts

Hello,
I am creating a report that should present something like this:
YEAR-1 | MONTH-1 | MONTH-2 | MONTH-3... | YEAR | MONTH-1 | MONTH-2 | MONTH-3...
My problem is that when designing the dataset to support this layout I drag the Year, Month and Distinct count Measure, but on the report when I want the value for the YEAR level I don't have it and I cannot sum the months value...
What is the best aproach to solve this? Do I really have to go to advanced mode and customize my MDX or DAX? Can't basic users do something like this that seems so trivial and needed?
Thank you
Luis Simões

Hi Luis,
According to your description, you create a Reporting Services report using Analysis Service Tabular Model as the datasource, now what you want is sum the months value on year level, right?
In your scenario, you can add the Month field to column group, add a parent group using Year Field and then add a Total on Month group. In this case, Reporting Services will sum the months value on Year level. I have tested it on my local environment, the
screenshot below is for you reference.
Reference:Lesson 6: Adding Grouping and Totals (Reporting Services)
If this is not what you want, please describe your dataset structure, so that we can make further analysis.
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Charlie Liao
TechNet Community Support

SSRS report with tabular model – MDX query CoalesceEmpty function does not return the provided string value

Hello everyone,
I created following calculated member in MDX query. I am using it in one of the report parameter in dataset (single select dropdown list as report parameter).
WITH MEMBER [Measures].[ParameterCaption] AS
CoalesceEmpty([Customer].[National Account Code].CURRENTMEMBER.MEMBER_CAPTION,'None')
I would like to display 'None' text at the top of the dropdown list values. So that when user selects 'None' then this parameter will not considered in MDX query else the selected National Account Code will be considered to filter report data. But,
the above return blank/empty value for [Customer].[National Account Code].& member though I specified 'None' as text in CoalesceEmpty function. Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks, Ankit Shah
Inkey Solutions, India.
Microsoft Certified Business Management Solutions Professionals
http://www.inkeysolutions.com/MicrosoftDynamicsCRM.html

Hi Ankit,
It seems that you issue had been solved in your another thread.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/5a5becac-226f-428a-95b0-aaaa22733818/ssrs-report-with-tabular-model-create-a-dropdown-report-parameter-with-none-option-as-the-top?forum=sqlanalysisservices#0e51bf8c-a66c-4df5-a244-0147728fdfdb
iif([Customer].[National Account Code].CURRENTMEMBER.MEMBER_CAPTION="","None",[Customer].[National
Account Code].CURRENTMEMBER.MEMBER_CAPTION)
I marked this reply as answer, it will benefit to other members who have the similar issue.
Regards,
Charlie Liao
TechNet Community Support

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