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		<title>Creating roles from Active Directory grups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This script could help Analysis Services administrators to load and configure big amount of roles. Supose,  I have to configure  100+ roles for every shop in you enterprise. Every shop have his own group in Active Directory:    active Directory adminsitrator already created AD groups for shops with description &#8220;new&#8221;.  In AS database I have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ssas-info.com/RamunasBalukonisBlog/32_creating-roles-from-active-directory-grups</link>
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		<title>Filtering Pivot Table by list of values (Excel 2007)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the missing features in SSAS we found is filtering by list of values. In most of clients (Excel, Panorama) you are able to set a filter for one or several items.  But filter cube by 300 items could be tricky task.   Let say we have a bussines task like: filter a Adventure Works cube by 300 different products. These 300 products spread in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ssas-info.com/RamunasBalukonisBlog/25_filtering-pivot-table-by-list-of-values-excel-2007</link>
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		<title>Avoid setting IsAggregatable = False to dimension attributes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my last article I described the situation when Analysis Services reproduces incorrect results with Default Member defined on dimension attributes. Very similar problems occurs when IsAggragatable =False to dimension attributes. The IsAggregatable property controls show or hide the topmost (aggregatable) level of hierarchy. Let say, you do not want to show the (All) level [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ssas-info.com/RamunasBalukonisBlog/19_AvoidsettingIsAggregatable=Falsetodimensionattributes</link>
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		<title>Avoid defining Default Member</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Default Members are good thing in BI environment. You can define Default member as &#8220;Last month&#8221; in Date dimension, &#8220;Active&#8221; in status dimension and so on. But be careful defining default members: Analysis Services returns incorrect results with default member in some circumstances. To reproduce buggy behaviour, open Adveture Works, define default member as [Road Bikes] subcategory [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ssas-info.com/RamunasBalukonisBlog/14_avoid-defining-default-member</link>
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		<title>Describing the cube</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the features I missed in OLAP clients are objects descriptions (measures, calculated member, dimensions and so on). Only SSAS administrator could see objects descriptions. But description information for end users are also needed, even critical. I would like to see description information on OLAP objects tooltip, as example. In our BI enviroment, we use abbraviations for some fileds. As example we have calculated member &#8220;gross [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ssas-info.com/RamunasBalukonisBlog/13_describing-the-cube</link>
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		<title>Choosing client for SSAS 2005: Excel 2003 or Excel 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After we migrated Analysis Services from 2000 to 2005 we discovered that the same (or analogous) queries against SSAS 2005 runs even slower than AS 2000. Our users used MS Excel 2003 as front end on AS 2005. After some time I installed MS Excel 2007. Then I tried to do the same Pivot Table actions on both Excel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ssas-info.com/RamunasBalukonisBlog/3_choosing-client-for-ssas-2005-excel-2003-or-excel-2007</link>
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