One of the more subtle architectural differences between tabular and multidimensional instances is caching. Multidimensional is a disk-based technology and performance for query workloads (in many cases) depends heavily on cache utilization. Tabular, on the other hand, is a memory-based technology with (nearly) zero dependence on disk IO and is therefore much less […]
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The default behavior when filtering on multiple members from the same attribute hierarchy is a logical OR. In the pivot table above, we have the [Internet Customer Count] measure (which is a distinct count measure) sliced by Product Subcategory and filtered for [Mountain Bikes] and [Tires and Tubes]. This shows […]
Read more →Earlier this summer, I started working with a new client to develop the next version of their reporting platform. This client already had the reporting requirements and good jump start on the underlying data model but had run into some serious performance issues when trying to report directly from the relational data model […]
Read more →If you regularly follow this blog, then chances are likely that you are already well aware of the new Tabular mode in SQL Server Analysis Services 2012. If not, don’t sweat it – we won’t be diving into anything super technical in this post 😎 Analysis Services Tabular is a […]
Read more →Over the years, I’ve come across a number of tools aimed at helping SSAS developers work more efficiently. In this post, I’ll share with you the ones I’ve found the most useful and give you a brief explanation of why. Note: Most of these tools were released prior to Analysis […]
Read more →Building from my last post, Performance Metrics: Average, Mean, Median, and Outliers, where I covered the topic of when to use Median instead of Average, in this post I’m going (to try) to show you how to calculate the Median of a set of values in T-SQL, MDX, and DAX. Calculate […]
Read more →Recently, while discussing role-based security in SSAS Tabular models with a few colleagues, the following question came up: Is it possible to write a DAX query in such a way that row-level security is bypassed? At the time, we all agreed that the notion seemed ridiculous…if that were possible, what’s […]
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