Dear all,
I am running into some difficulties with an SSAS 2005 SP2 cube in combination with an OWC 11 pivottable client. Everything basically works fine.
The problem occurs when I make a selection with one or more dimensions in the 'filter' section.
For instance, if I build a pivottable which shows:
YEAR in the Colums
PRODUCT GROUP in the ROWS
CUSTOMER NAME in the ROWS
PRODUCT FAMILY in FILTER SECTION
SALES as Measure
As soon as I make a selection on YEAR (show only 2007) and PRODUCT FAMILY (show only 'bikes' and 'minibikes') , the pivottable basically hangs. On the server the memory usage of SSAS shoots up to 1.8(!) GB
After +/- 60 seconds I get a blank screen and sometimes: 'Cannot display data because of structural changes in the database'.
I tried to make the same selecion in my Excel2007 eval, which worked fine. Pivottable 10 gives the same error. The error also occurs in Visual Studio (off course also OWC11).
Altering the cube's storage settings did not help.
My cube's main facttable containts approx 2.5 mln records.
Is this a known problem, what can I do to fix it?
Many many thanks
Rex
Dear all,
After doing some research it seems that SP2 is causing the errors. When downgrading my SSAS 2005 to SP1 all problems vanished. Only problem now is the performance compared to SP2 which is significantly lower.
To really make sure it was SP2 I installed a fresh SSAS2005 machine without any servicepacks and built my cube, after intensive testing no problems.
Upgraded to SP1, no problems.
Upgrade to SP2, massive memory usage of the SSAS service and total lockup.
I also installed the cumulative 3161 post SP2 update, but this did not fix the issue.
The problem only occurs when filtering data in the pivottable's 'filter' section.
Any ideas?
|||Problem solved!!
After installing the Cumulative Hoftfixes 2 for SP2 (build 3175), released Jun 22nd the problem has disappeared and the performance of my cubes is great!
Link to the hotfix: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936305
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