Number or Results and WITH MEMBER Calculation interacting weird - ssas

In our MDX Queries, we use a template like the following WITH MEMBER . SELECT SUBSET . FROM (SELECT . FROM .) a lot.
What this particular query should do (and does!) is list all product variants matching a filter, and give the sales amount for it for a month in time. On the same row, we have the sales total of all variants of this product.
We need only a subset of the result (for paging), and the results need to ordered to allow paging of course. Then there is a non empty, so only product variants that were sold in the time period qualify.
This works just fine. Paging also works: putting 30, 60, 90 for Start in SUBSET is gives the correct results.
However, if I put a 1 as Count (SUBSET(..., x, 1)) the result of the "Price all" goes to (null) for each and any row I select with x. If I return two or more rows it works just fine, and all rows have their correct values.
Two results and the correct value in the rightmost column (in case you are wondering how the total of all variants, 67, can be lower than the sales of one particular variant (280): I picked a bad example - there was a return (so a negative sale) for another variant of this product, for 213. The 67 is correct and desired!)
One Row and a (null) result
I do not understand how or why the SUBSET count would interfere with the Tuple I select in the WITH MEMBER. If it does it for 30 rows at a time, why not for one?
*edit
I just tried, what would happen if I filter in a way that only one result matches (and SUBSET paging is set to "working values" of 0, 30): The same as in the 2nd screenshot, for one result row the WITH MEMBER evaluates to (null).
So it is not that SUBSET is the problem, but more general: When there is only one result row!
Could this be a bug in our SQL Server Version? It is SQL 2012 with SP4 and all latest security patches.
WITH
MEMBER [DIM Date].[HI Year_Month_Day].[CURRENT_MONTH] AS
[DIM Date].[HI Year_Month_Day].&[20201215].Parent /* Select Month of December */
MEMBER [MEASURES].[Price all] AS (
(
[DIM Products].[HI Products].Currentmember.Parent
, [DIM Products].[HI Subproduct].[Total]
)
, [MEASURES].[Price]
), FORMAT_STRING = '#,0' /* Get the parent product total next to every subproduct */
SELECT {
([DIM Datum].[HI Year_Month_Day].[CURRENT_MONTH], [MEASURES].[Price])
, ([DIM Datum].[HI Year_Month_Day].[CURRENT_MONTH], [MEASURES].[Price All])
} ON COLUMNS
, {
SUBSET(
ORDER(
NONEMPTY(
([DIM Products].[HI Produt Subproduct].[Subproduct])
, {([DIM Date].[HI Year_Month_Day].[CURRENT_MONTH], [MEASURES].[Price])}
)
, ([DIM Date].[HI Year_Month_Day].[CURRENT_MONTH], [MEASURES].[Price])
, BDESC
)
, 0
, 30
)
} ON ROWS
FROM (
SELECT
{[DIM StoreLocation].[HI Country].[Country].&[US]}
* {[DIM Productgroup].[HI Productgroup].[Productgroup].&[Bikes]}
ON COLUMNS
FROM [Cube]
)

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Simple Calculated Member Running for Forever - MDX

I am facing very strange issue with MDX (SSAS 2014), on which simplest calculated member is taking forever to execute. Could someone please help me to understand why i am facing this issue. If i not use calculated member everything works fast and result comes in seconds. When i remove Producer attribute, query performances well.
Below is the complete query.
WITH
MEMBER Measures.AsOfDate AS ("[Policy Effective Date].[Year-Month].[Date].&[2018-01-04T00:00:00]")
MEMBER Measures.YTDPremium AS AGGREGATE (YTD(STRTOMEMBER(Measures.AsOfDate)), [Measures].[Written Premium])
SELECT NON EMPTY
{
Measures.YTDPremium
} ON COLUMNS, NON EMPTY
{
(
[Program].[Program Name].[Program Name]
,[Insuring Company].[Insuring Company Name].[Insuring Company Name]
,[Line Of Business].[Line Of Business].[Line Of Business]
,[Producer].[Producer Name].[Producer Name]
)
} ON ROWS
FROM [Premium]
Try understand what the following part does in your query
NON EMPTY { ( [Program].[Program Name].[Program Name]
,[Insuring Company].[Insuring Company Name].[Insuring Company Name]
,[Line Of Business].[Line Of Business].[Line Of Business]
,[Producer].[Producer Name].[Producer Name]
) } ON ROWS
In the above MDX you are telling the server to take a cross product of all values of "Programs", "Line Of Business" and "Producer Name". So lets say you have 4 values of programs , 3 values of line of business and 2 values of producer name. The total combinations are 4*3*2=24
Now the "Non empty" removes any combinations that are not present in your dataset. This is done by removing all rows that have "Null" value in column value.
Your measure is returning value irrespective if that combination exists or not. You can modify your Calculatedmeasure to return value only in the case if the combination is valid. This can be achived by checking an actual measure for that combination
Edit: based the below example is based on the comment
In the below example i am trying to get the internet sales amount categories and components
select
{ [Measures].[Internet Sales Amount] }
on columns,
(
[Product].[Category].[Category],
[Customer].[Country].[Country]
)
on rows
from [Adventure Works]
Result
Now add "Non empty" to the query and observe the results.
Results
Now lets add calculted measure that returns "hello". Notice how the non empty clause is ineffective.
Now modify the code make the calculated measure check other measures for null
with member measures.t as
case when [Measures].[Internet Sales Amount] = null then null else "hello" end
select
{ [Measures].[Internet Sales Amount] ,measures.t }
on columns,
non empty
(
[Product].[Category].[Category],
[Customer].[Country].[Country]
)
on rows
from [Adventure Works]
Result
The bottom line: Because of cross product your result is so huge that SSAS is having hard time handling it.

How To Get All Items Created or Still Open For A Given Time

I am working with a system were items are created (postDate dimension) and closed (endDate dimension). The endDate column is always populated with the last time the item was seen. An item is considered closed in a certain time if its last seen date is before the date you are querying. Each row in the fact table has the item, postDate, endDate, locationID, and some other dimensions used for aggregations. What I am trying to accomplish is getting all items still active for a given time frame. For example I want to know all items posted in November 2008 or before November 2008 that has not yet closed. In SQL it would look something like:
SELECT C.geoCountyArea,TM.CalendarYear,COUNT(DISTINCT a.itemid)
FROM [dbo].[factTable] a
JOIN dbo.dimDate AS TM
ON TM.DateKey BETWEEN postDate AND endDate
JOIN [dbo].[dim_geography] C
ON A.geographyID=C.geographyID
WHERE C.geoCountyArea = '1204000057'
AND TM.CalendarYear = 2008 AND TM.MonthNumberOfYear = 11
GROUP BY C.geoCountyArea,TM.CalendarYear
ORDER BY C.geoCountyArea,TM.CalendarYear
This returns 27,715 which is expected. Now, in MDX this looks like:
WITH MEMBER Measures.[itemCount] AS
AGGREGATE(
{NULL:[PostDate].[Month Name].&[2008]&[11]} * {[EndDate].[Month Name].&[2008]&[11]:NULL},
[Measures].[Fact_itemCount]
)
SELECT NON EMPTY (
Measures.[itemCount]
) ON 0,
NON EMPTY (
{[PostDate].[Month Name].&[2008]&[11]},
{[Geography].[Geo County Area].&[1204000057]}
)ON 1
FROM [Cube];
This returns 27,717 - which is 2 more than the SQL version that could be due to items with no end Date posted. Now, the complication comes when I want to get more than one explicit time - for example item count for all months in 2008 or item count for all years. I looked up methods to link a given param to another one via roll playing dimensions and came across this link. I altered my script so it looks like:
WITH MEMBER Measures.[itemCount] AS
AGGREGATE(
{NULL:LINKMEMBER([DATE].[Calendar].CURRENTMEMBER
,[PostDate].[Calendar])}
* {LINKMEMBER([DATE].[Calendar].CURRENTMEMBER
, [EndDate].[Calendar]):NULL}
, [Measures].[Fact_itemCount]
)
SELECT {Measures.[jobCount]} ON 0,
NON EMPTY (
{[DATE].[Month Name].&[2008]&[11]},
{[Geography].[Geo County Area].&[1204000057]}
)ON 1
FROM [Cube];
This, however, returns only the items created in November 2008 - value of 14,884. If I add in other months I do get individual counts for each month but, again, these are just the items created in those months.
How do I get the "active" item count for a given month/year/quarter without having do explicitly declare the time values in the AGGREGATE?
Can you use NonEmpty?
WITH MEMBER Measures.[itemCount] AS
AGGREGATE(
{NULL:
NONEMPTY(
[PostDate].[Month Name].MEMBERS //<<AMEND TO EXACT STRUCTURE USED IN YOUR CUBE
,[DATE].[Calendar].CURRENTMEMBER
).ITEM(0).ITEM(0)}
* {NONEMPTY(
[EndDate].[Month Name].MEMBERS //<<AMEND TO EXACT STRUCTURE USED IN YOUR CUBE
,[DATE].[Calendar].CURRENTMEMBER
).ITEM(0).ITEM(0): NULL}
, [Measures].[Fact_itemCount]
)
...
This ended up being the solution that provided valid results (tested against SQL calls against the warehouse tables):
WITH MEMBER Measures.[itemCount] AS
AGGREGATE(
{NULL:LINKMEMBER([Post Date].[Calendar],
[Post Date].[Calendar])}
* {LINKMEMBER([Post Date].[Calendar],
[End Date].[Calendar]):NULL},
[Measures].[Fact_itemCount]
)
SELECT {Measures.[itemCount]} ON 0,
NON EMPTY (
{[Post Date].[Month Name].Children},
{[Geography].[Geo County Area].&[1204000057]}
)
FROM [Cube]
Not that I am doing LINKMEMBER against the post and end dates - not against the global Date measure.

Query to only display matching elements in two dimensions

Short question:
Any idea how I can pull the name from one dimension entry and apply it to another as filter?
Long description: My cube has has dimensions for manufacturer and seller, and I only need sales for "themselves". The dimensions are loaded from distinct tables in the source but have entries with the exact same name.
Manufacturer Seller
A A *
A D
B B *
C C *
C A
C D
A, B and C sell their products themselves, A and C also sell through reseller D. C also sells through A. I'd like to filter for the marked rows only (names matching).
In SQL this would be simple, or the cube might be easily enhanced to flag "own sales", but both options are not available. I need to query the cube "as is".
I tried using STRTOMEMBER and CURRENTMEMBER like so (with NAME and MEMBER_NAME):
STRTOMEMBER("[Dim Seller].[Seller].[" + [Dim Producer].[Producer].CURRENTMEMBER.NAME + "]
That actually works, syntactically, but CURRENTMEMBER seems to always evaluate to ALL and delivers the (correct) measure value for the ALL element yet not the one for matching name.
I also tried to create a WHERE setting the two names equal
[Dim Seller].[Seller].CURRENTMEMBER.NAME = [Dim Producer].[Producer].CURRENTMEMBER.NAME
but that is very SQL and not valid in MDX.
The whole query looks like this:
SELECT
NON EMPTY {
[Measures].[Value]
} ON COLUMNS
, NON EMPTY { (
{
[Dim Producer].[Producer].[A]
, [Dim Producer].[Producer].[B]
, [Dim Producer].[Producer].[C]
}
* [Dim Seller].[Seller].[Seller].ALLMEMBERS
// This line needs to be trimmed to same name as producer
) } ON ROWS
FROM
[Cube]
The producer list is coming from a config file and string-concatenated to the query and subject to change. Having a second seller list to be kept in sync would be a burden but also (when C sells through A) deliver wrong results.
Any idea how I can pull the name from one dimension entry and apply it to another?
The HAVING clause might help you:
SELECT
NON EMPTY {
[Measures].[Value]
} ON COLUMNS
, NON EMPTY {
{
[Dim Producer].[Producer].[A]
, [Dim Producer].[Producer].[B]
, [Dim Producer].[Producer].[C]
}
* [Dim Seller].[Seller].[Seller].ALLMEMBERS
}
HAVING
[Dim Seller].[Seller].CURRENTMEMBER.MEMBER_NAME =
[Dim Producer].[Producer].CURRENTMEMBER.MEMBER_NAME
ON ROWS
FROM
[Cube]
Use the GENERATE function to do the job for you.
with set Producers as
{[Dim Producer].[Producer].[A]
,[Dim Producer].[Producer].[B]
,[Dim Producer].[Producer].[C]}
set Sellers as
[Dim Seller].[Seller].members
//For every producer, get the seller who shares the same name.
set ProducersHavingSameNameAsSellers as
GENERATE(Producers, GENERATE(Sellers, filter
(Sellers,
[Dim Seller].[Seller].CURRENTMEMBER.MEMBER_NAME =
[Dim Producer].[Producer].CURRENTMEMBER.MEMBER_NAME
)
)
)
SELECT
NON EMPTY [Measures].[Value] ON COLUMNS,
ProducersHavingSameNameAsSellers ON ROWS
FROM [Cube]

Getting a count of users each day in Mondrian MDX

I'm trying to write a query to give me the total number of users for each customer per day.
Here is what I have so far, which for each customer/day combination is giving the total number of user dimension entries without splitting them up by customer/day.
WITH MEMBER [Measures].[MyUserCount]
AS COUNT(Descendants([User].CurrentMember, [User].[User Name]), INCLUDEEMPTY)
SELECT
NON EMPTY CrossJoin([Date].[Date].Members, [Customer].[Customer Name].Members) ON ROWS,
{[Measures].[MyUserCount]} on COLUMNS
FROM
[Users]
The problem with your calculated member is that [User].CurrentMember is set to the All member for every row tuple, and thus the count is the total. What you need is a way for the [Customer].CurrentMember and [Date].CurrentMember to effectively filter the [User] dimension.
You need to use a measure that makes sense, i.e. that will have a non-empty value for meaningful joins of the dimension members that you're interested in.
To find this out, you could start by running a query like this:
SELECT
NON EMPTY CrossJoin(
[User].[User Name].Members,
[Measures].[Some measuse]
) ON COLUMNS,
NON EMPTY CrossJoin(
[Date].[Date].Members,
[Customer].[Customer Name].Members
) ON ROWS
FROM [Project]
You would have selected Some measure adequately. The results of that query will be a lot of empty cells, but in a given row, the columns that do have a value correspond to the Users that are related to a given Customer x Date tuple (on the row). You want to count those columns for every row. COUNT and FILTER are what you need, then the query with the calculated member will be
WITH MEMBER [Measures].[User count] AS
COUNT(
FILTER(
[User].[User Name].Members,
NOT ISEMPTY([Measures].[Some measure])
)
)
SELECT
NON EMPTY {[Measures].[User count]} ON COLUMNS,
NON EMPTY CrossJoin(
[Date].[Date].Members,
[Customer].[Customer Name].Members
) ON ROWS
FROM [Users]
I am assuming a fair bit here, but with some experimentation you should be able to work it out.

Can I reformulate this MDX query to use sets instead of an "And"?

with member [Measures].[BoughtDispenser] as
Sum(Descendants([Customer].[Customer].CurrentMember, [Customer].[Customer]),
Iif(
(IsEmpty(([Item].[ItemNumber].&[011074], [Measures].[Sale Amount]))
And IsEmpty(([Item].[ItemNumber].&[011069], [Measures].[Sale Amount]))
)
Or IsEmpty([Measures].[Sale Amount]),
0 , 1
)
)
select
{[Measures].[Sale Amount]} on columns,
non empty filter([Customer].[Customer].children, [Measures].[BoughtDispenser])
* {[Item].[ItemNumber].members}
on rows
from [Sales]
where [EnteredDate].[Quarter].&[2010-01-01T00:00:00]
;
The object is to show all the items purchased by customers who also bought either of the two dispensers (011069 and 011074).
I based the calculated member on a query I found to do basket analysis. I feel like there should be a way to write it with the set {[Item].[ItemNumber].&[011074], [Item].[ItemNumber].&[011069]} instead of the two IsEmpty tests. Everything I've tried ended up having every Customer in the result.
My environment is SQL Server Analysis Services 2005.
Yes I can! It just required a slightly different approach to the calculated member:
with member [Measures].[BoughtDispenser] as
Sum(Descendants([Customer].[Customer].CurrentMember, [Customer].[Customer])
* {[Item].[ItemNumber].&[011069], [Item].[ItemNumber].&[011074]},
[Measures].[Quantity Shipped]
)
select
{[Measures].[Sale Amount]} on columns,
non empty filter([Customer].[Customer].children, [Measures].[BoughtDispenser])
* {[Item].[ItemNumber].members}
on rows
from [Sales]
where [EnteredDate].[Quarter].&[2010-01-01T00:00:00]
;