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:
CREATE MEASURE 'PROFIT_WORKSHEET'[Less Cost Over Profit -Indirect Costs]=CALCULAT ..."
I could see that the SSAS server was still working via CPU activity, but no futher messages were reported to SSMS. Then after 3 hours and 45 minutes later it claimed to have completed and displayed:
"Execution Complete" (it had lots of white space above it, around 20 or so blank empty lines which was odd)
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)
Thanks!
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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?
In your scenario, you can enable SQL Server profiler to monitor the queries fired by the process, once you find some queries took a very long time to run, consider creating the smaller cube partition or optimizing the query by adding index or partition to
improve process time.
http://www.mssqlgirl.com/process-full-on-tabular-model-database-via-ssms.html
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