An Analysis Services 2008 nugget

[Darren Gosbell]

I was experimenting with some of the PerformancePoint APIs today, but I was doing something wrong as I kept getting ERROR! back. I assumed that some of the parameters that I was using was resulting in invalid MDX being generated. I was running against a test database on SSAS 2005 and as I suspected there was a syntax error in the MDX. Unfortunately Profiler against SSAS 2005 showed me the error, but not the offending MDX, which was not much help.



On a whim I decided to move my test database to SSAS 2008 and what do you know - profiler now shows the full MDX in the error message! This allowed me to see that the it was the parameter that was mapping to the slicer that was not working.



I'm sure there are plenty of other little areas of fit and polish like this which don't make it into an official feature list, but make it worth upgrading to SSAS 2008.






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