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SSAS from the trenches

While I'm sitting here watching some data process I figured I would share with the rest of the world some of the umm interesting things that have come up while dealing with SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS). Actually, something I would like to do it blog more often about the topic, it will be interesting to see if any else reads these entry's. Here we go

Dimension processing...
A hard lesson I learned over the weekend was that any time you fully process a Dimension every fact table that relies on that Dim, needs to be processed. When your CUBES are over 500 Gig that can take some time to do (I am still processing the cubes, and probably will be till this weekend).
Now as it turns out, after investigation, no matter what we would have had to reprocess everything. This weekend was DST for us, and because someone previous to me screwed up the step order in a job. We have two SQL jobs (running ETL refreshes of Dims and Cubes) that refresh our Analysis Server. The first one updates the Dims, the second updates the cubes. The second one does have a couple of waits setup so it doesn't trample on anything else, but its first step is to restart SSAS. When SSAS got restarted, it must have been at a critical point because I couldn't get the Dim that had been processing to process and come up clean. It was erroring out. See ever so enlightening error message below

Internal error: The operation terminated unsuccessfully. Internal error: The operation terminated unsuccessfully. OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: Transaction (Process ID 73) was deadlocked on thread | communication buffer resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Rerun the transaction.; 40001. Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the dimension, with the ID of 'Vw Dim Product CUBE', Name of 'Product' was being processed. Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the 'First Sales Actual Date' attribute of the 'Product' dimension from the 'CB Cubes' database was being processed. Internal error: The operation terminated unsuccessfully. Internal error: The operation terminated unsuccessfully. Internal error: The operation terminated unsuccessfully. Internal error: The operation terminated unsuccessfully. Internal error: The operation terminated unsuccessfully. Internal error: The operation terminated unsuccessfully. Internal error: The operation terminated unsuccessfully. Internal error: The operation terminated unsuccessfully. Internal error: The operation terminated unsuccessfully. Internal error: The operation terminated unsuccessfully. Internal error: The operation terminated unsuccessfully. Internal error: The operation terminated unsuccessfully. Internal error: The operation terminated unsuccessfully. Internal error: The operation terminated unsuccessfully. Internal error: The operation terminated unsuccessfully. Internal error: The operation terminated unsuccessfully. OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: Operation canceled; HY008. Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the dimension, with the ID of 'Vw Dim Product CUBE', Name of 'Product' was being processed. [snip four more pages of about the same thing]

This has been one really hard week, myself and a coworker have been manually babysitting the jobs all week. The first thing on the order was to get the cubes back up and at least populated with a month's worth of data. Now I'm following up and processing everything (the users are clamoring for the data). Actually funny story, on Tuesday, the CEO caught me in a meeting, and called me out asking how the cube processing was coming along. Now understand our CEO is a really nice person, I just don't care how nice she is, it's never a good thing in my opinion for someone of her nature to know your name and what your working on. Especially when it's something that's broken. Oh well, at least she took it in stride and was more worried about the hours I'm putting in getting things back (yea she's that nice)

If you like that post, then there is more to come. I would like to keep things kind of on topic, so one issue per post Smile | :) Cry | :((


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