Collecting ARM logs can be extremely useful when tuning OLAP cubes for faster response. The ARM log (which stands for Application Response Measurement) collects vital usage information for OLAP cubes using the SAS OLAP Server logging facility. SAS OLAP Cube studio can analyze these logs to assist with aggregation building to make OLAP cubes...
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As a follow-up to my earlier post on taking advantage of OLAP member properties, you can also display OLAP member properties through the Add-in for Microsoft Office as well as SAS Enterprise Guide. I’m a huge fan of Enterprise Guide, so it’s nice to have that ability but even nicer when the more common...
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Have you ever had a requirement to display additional details about data in a report but couldn’t find a good way to do so? Showing OLAP Member Properties in a SAS Web Report could be a useful way to sneak more details about data into a crosstab table. Crossing Multiple Dimensions with High Cardinality...
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If you have never worked with OLAP code – then you might be curious how it works and what it looks like. Some developers use SAS OLAP Cube Studio to start their cube building process since it saves some of the typing required. Let’s review some of the code. [Adv Users: check out Steve's...
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When you use the OLAP Viewer in Microsoft Excel you may have run into the window borders – literally. Your cube and analysis needs more space! Scroll, Scroll, and Scroll to See the Cube Data When you open the OLAP cube in the MS Excel OLAP Viewer the default cube size dictates the...
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You may be aware by now, our new SAS BI book Building Business Intelligence with SAS:Content Development Examples launched last week on the SAS Press site. That’s right, SAS Press or Amazon will be delighted to bring a copy of this SAS BI book to your door. When Angela and I set out to write...
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SAS PROC SQL has a lot of neat ways you can extract and manipulate data. In my experience, SAS users typically write PROC SQL to query SAS datasets or relational tables in databases. You can also...
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There are 2 ways to develop OLAP cubes in the SAS EBI platform: using SAS OLAP Cube Studio or by writing the PROC OLAP statement by hand and submitting the SAS program. There are pros and cons for both that I will go through in this post. Personall...
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