Excel – User Input for Custom MDX query using VBA and Pivots
I had a requirement where I wanted to do the following for a particular Power User · Give them the ability to put in a Date as a parameter in an Excel Workbook. · Once I have this date, is to the have a custom MDX query, which will then go and get the required data for the date. o …
DAX – Comparing a specific Product Average against the average of ALL products
I had a situation when one of my fellow workers wanted to create a report where they wanted to compare one product’s sales and how it was doing when compared to the average of ALL the product sales. In our example below we want to extract from the AdventureWorksDW2012 Analysis Services Database You can get a copy of…
SCOM (Systems Center Operations Manager) Cube and Data warehouse
What I have done is I have found that it is very handy having all our SCOM data in a data warehouse and then having it in a SSAS (SQL Server Analysis Services). Within the zip file which can be located here below it has all the details for the following: · SCOM Data Warehouse and OLAP Documentation.docx o This…
SSAS (SQL Server Analysis Services) – KPI Goal – Unknown Member is result set
What happened was when I created my KPIs everything was looking correct. But when I dragged in the hour value, I kept on getting an Unknown in my results set for my KPI Goal. Below I will explain how this came about and how I got it resolved. 1. Below is what my KPI Goal looked like as…
Excel – Using a Custom MDX Query in Excel Table
I had a requirement where I wanted to use my own Custom MDX Query within an Excel Table. And from the output of the table I then wanted to Pivot this data. I do know that you can do this in Power Pivot, but the requirement was to not use Power Pivot. Below are the steps and it is a…
Date Filtering in Excel from your Analysis Services Dimension
I recently had to set up another Date Dimension and went through the process of setting up all the properties in the date dimension so that when it is used in Excel, the end users would then be able to use the Date Filters built into Excel. The Excel Date Filters are very handy when creating Excel documents. As an…