If you use SQL Server Analysis Services as a data source for Power BI, you have two types of connection; Live Connection or Import Data. If you use Import Data, you can select columns and measures to be imported into Power BI. However, what if you want to add more columns to it, or edit Read more about Add or Edit Columns When Importing Data from Analysis Services into Power BI[…]
Power BI Desktop comes with new updates today as well, and the best feature in this update (from my point of view) is Live connection to SSAS Multi-Dimensional. This feature is still in preview mode, but it is good to see that Microsoft Power BI team invested on this most wanted request from users. With Read more about Live SSAS Multi-Dimensional Connection from Power BI[…]
Most of you faced such situation that you’ve set the FormatString property of your measures in the cube from BIDS or SSDT, But when you browser the cube in Excel you will not see that format. Let’s say you applied format string to add thousands separator, two decimal points, and dollar sign to your Amount Read more about Format String Issue of SSAS Measures in Excel Front-End[…]
Thank you all for attending at my presentation in TechDays 2013 Hong Kong at 2nd day of conference. here you can find presentation file of my speaking session about SQL Server Analysis Services Tabular Modelling Title: SQL Server Analysis Services Tabular Modelling Description: SQL Server 2012 provided another method for modelling BI presentation named SSAS Tabular Modelling. Read more about Presentation files for Hong Kong TechDays 2013 : SSAS Tabular Modeling[…]
Hi folks, Yesterday I faced a situation in one of SSAS cubes, which dimension processing was failed because it found two different members with different attribute values, like Auckland and auckland ! I found out that reason of this problem is SSAS dimension will inherits its collation from underlying database and if you don’t change Read more about SSAS Dimension Processing: Be Careful about Case Sensitivity[…]