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Monitoring SSAS Multidimensional Non Empty Filtering Using Profiler, Part 3
Reposted from Chris Webb's blog with the author's permission. In Part 1 of this series I introduced the different types of non empty filtering that occur in Analysis Services Multidimensional and in...
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The MSDN documentation and SSMS support for Analysis Services xEvents is severely lacking when compared to the database engine. In fact there wasn’t even a GUI for SSAS xEvents until SQL 2016… which...
View ArticleSSAS Multidimensional Caching-Related Performance Problems With Power BI Tables
Reposted from Chris Webb's blog with the author's permission. Last week I was doing some performance tuning for a customer using Power BI on top of a large SSAS Multidimensional cube via a Live...
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SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) is becoming increasingly popular as an OLAP platform for business analysts. There are many tools available for enhancing the analysts’ ability to process data and...
View ArticleHow to Process a SSAS MOLAP cube as fast as possible
Recently, with some colleagues, I was working on a project with a serious challenge; there was this Analysis Server 2012 system with 40 physical cores, half a Terabyte of RAM and 10TB of SSD storage...
View ArticleFinding Out Which MDX Calculations Are Being Evaluated By Your Query In...
Reposted from Chris Webb's blog with the author's permission. Since Analysis Services 2012 there have been two trace events that provide a lot of information about what’s going on in the Formula Engine...
View ArticleHow to optimize the dimension security performance using partitioning in SSAS...
In the articles How to partition an SSAS Cube in Analysis Services Multidimensional and Benefits of Partitioning an SSAS Multidimensional Cube, the concept of measure group partitioning is introduced...
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Using the Resource Usage Profiler Event For SSAS Multidimensional Query...
Reposted from Chris Webb's blog with the author's permission. If you’re performance tuning SSAS Multidimensional Storage Engine issues, the Resource Usage Profiler event can provide a lot of useful...
View ArticleUsing the Resource Usage Profiler Event For SSAS Multidimensional Query...
Reposted from Chris Webb's blog with the author's permission. You probably know that using many-to-many relationships or non-materialised referenced relationships can be bad for Analysis Services...
View ArticleUsing the Resource Usage Profiler Event For SSAS Multidimensional Query...
Reposted from Chris Webb's blog with the author's permission. Building aggregations in your SSAS Multidimensional will make your queries faster, right? While that’s true, they will only make a...
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