SSAS 2012 end Excel functions - mode.sngl doesn't work

Question

Since I've used SSAS 2005 with Excel 2007 my Excel.Mode function worked fine.
Now we have migrated to SQL 2012 and we have installed Excel 2010 --> Excel.Mode is deprecated in the new version and the cube calculations that use this function won't work. The new Excel way to calculate mode is [mode.sngl] but I can't call it from cube
calculations.
I tried to replace the Excel approach with the MDX approach (link below) but the time to calculate is too slow.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-us/sqlanalysisservices/thread/C70DE994-5815-4B30-A10A-81518F784BD2
Can anyone suggest me how to procede?
Thank you in advance

Answer 1

Hi Mihai,
as I mentioned before I've tried different approaches (see the link) but I didn't find a good MDX solution to work around this issue.
Fortunately (for me) I have a certainty. The numbers involved in my calculation can only be between 0 and 9. Impossible to have more than 9 (cautionary) delivery (measure.[Num. Consegne]) a day for a product in a shop.
So I can work around in this (unconventional and maybe optimizable) way:
CREATE Hidden [Count_01] = COUNT(Filter(({descendants([C3 Date].[TIME - Calendario Solare].currentmember,[C3 Date].[TIME - Calendario Solare].[Data Solare],SELF)}, [C3 Clienti Gestionali].[Cli - Cliente Principale].&[1]), [Measures].[Num. Consegne] = 1));
CREATE Hidden [Count_02] = COUNT(Filter(({descendants([C3 Date].[TIME - Calendario Solare].currentmember,[C3 Date].[TIME - Calendario Solare].[Data Solare],SELF)}, [C3 Clienti Gestionali].[Cli - Cliente Principale].&[1]), [Measures].[Num. Consegne] = 2));
CREATE Hidden [Count_03] = COUNT(Filter(({descendants([C3 Date].[TIME - Calendario Solare].currentmember,[C3 Date].[TIME - Calendario Solare].[Data Solare],SELF)}, [C3 Clienti Gestionali].[Cli - Cliente Principale].&[1]), [Measures].[Num. Consegne] = 3));
CREATE Hidden [Count_04] = COUNT(Filter(({descendants([C3 Date].[TIME - Calendario Solare].currentmember,[C3 Date].[TIME - Calendario Solare].[Data Solare],SELF)}, [C3 Clienti Gestionali].[Cli - Cliente Principale].&[1]), [Measures].[Num. Consegne] = 4));
CREATE Hidden [Count_05] = COUNT(Filter(({descendants([C3 Date].[TIME - Calendario Solare].currentmember,[C3 Date].[TIME - Calendario Solare].[Data Solare],SELF)}, [C3 Clienti Gestionali].[Cli - Cliente Principale].&[1]), [Measures].[Num. Consegne] = 5));
CREATE Hidden [Count_06] = COUNT(Filter(({descendants([C3 Date].[TIME - Calendario Solare].currentmember,[C3 Date].[TIME - Calendario Solare].[Data Solare],SELF)}, [C3 Clienti Gestionali].[Cli - Cliente Principale].&[1]), [Measures].[Num. Consegne] = 6));
CREATE Hidden [Count_07] = COUNT(Filter(({descendants([C3 Date].[TIME - Calendario Solare].currentmember,[C3 Date].[TIME - Calendario Solare].[Data Solare],SELF)}, [C3 Clienti Gestionali].[Cli - Cliente Principale].&[1]), [Measures].[Num. Consegne] = 7));
CREATE Hidden [Count_08] = COUNT(Filter(({descendants([C3 Date].[TIME - Calendario Solare].currentmember,[C3 Date].[TIME - Calendario Solare].[Data Solare],SELF)}, [C3 Clienti Gestionali].[Cli - Cliente Principale].&[1]), [Measures].[Num. Consegne] = 8));
CREATE Hidden [Count_09] = COUNT(Filter(({descendants([C3 Date].[TIME - Calendario Solare].currentmember,[C3 Date].[TIME - Calendario Solare].[Data Solare],SELF)}, [C3 Clienti Gestionali].[Cli - Cliente Principale].&[1]), [Measures].[Num. Consegne] = 9));
CREATE Hidden [MaxCount] =
max({MEASURES.[Count_01],MEASURES.[Count_02],MEASURES.[Count_03],MEASURES.[Count_04]
,MEASURES.[Count_05],MEASURES.[Count_06],MEASURES.[Count_07],MEASURES.[Count_08]
,MEASURES.[Count_09]});
CREATE MEMBER CURRENTCUBE.[MEASURES].[Moda Consegne __TEST__3]
as measures.MaxCount,
NON_EMPTY_BEHAVIOR = { [Num Consegne] };
CREATE MEMBER CURRENTCUBE.[MEASURES].[Moda Consegne]
as
CASE measures.MaxCount
WHEN MEASURES.[Count_01] THEN 1
WHEN MEASURES.[Count_02] THEN 2
WHEN MEASURES.[Count_03] THEN 3
WHEN MEASURES.[Count_04] THEN 4
WHEN MEASURES.[Count_05] THEN 5
WHEN MEASURES.[Count_06] THEN 6
WHEN MEASURES.[Count_07] THEN 7
WHEN MEASURES.[Count_08] THEN 8
WHEN MEASURES.[Count_09] THEN 9
ELSE NULL END
NON_EMPTY_BEHAVIOR = { [Num Consegne] };
Hope to be helpful.
Regards,
Davide