DAX Studio

Closed Issue: Cannot install on Excel 2013 [32980]

marcorusso — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:03:30 GMT

I downloaded and tried to install the DAX Studio Add-In for Excel 2013 x64 and it failed with an error: A required component for interacting with Excel is not available. Please run setup.exe

Thanks

Commented Issue: Error: Either the user, , does not have permission to access the referenced mining model, Month, or the object does not exist. [34060]

niyaz006 — Thu, 16 May 2013 07:21:24 GMT

Hi,

When I try to execure a basic query, 'select * from <tablename>' it gives me the below error,

Error: Either the user, GDNINDIA\niyaz.shaffi, does not have permission to access the referenced mining model, Month, or the object does not exist.

Regards,
Niyaz
Comments: ** Comment from web user: niyaz006 **

I created this in Issue by mistake. How do I delete it and change to discussions?

Created Issue: Error: Either the user, , does not have permission to access the referenced mining model, Month, or the object does not exist. [34060]

niyaz006 — Thu, 16 May 2013 07:16:44 GMT

Source code checked in, #102793

dgosbell — Sun, 12 May 2013 21:44:17 GMT

Creating Release Branch

Edited Issue: Not_connecting_to_PowerPivot_model_Example [34045]

dgosbell — Sun, 12 May 2013 09:44:38 GMT

Not_connecting_to_PowerPivot_model_Example

Commented Issue: Not_connecting_to_PowerPivot_model_Example [34045]

dgosbell — Sun, 12 May 2013 09:43:52 GMT

Not_connecting_to_PowerPivot_model_Example
Comments: ** Comment from web user: dgosbell **

Thanks for this. It does appear that the native pivot table is interfering with our ability to find the PowerPivot connection. I'll have a look into fixing this.

New Post: Not connecting to PowerPivot model

dgosbell — Sun, 12 May 2013 09:42:17 GMT

@luowendong - thanks for your sample workbooks, I can reproduce your issue and will look into fixing it. You are correct that the native pivot table is causing the issue. If you delete it DAX Studio will find the PowerPivot model.

@DanyHoter - I have 4-5 PowerPivot models that I test against ranging in complexity from a PowerPivot version of Adventure Works all the way down to a single table -with 2 columns and 3 rows based off a single linked Excel table. They all work for me on Windows 8 64bit and Windows 7 32bit versions of Excel 2013. Without more information or a copy of an example workbook I'm not sure how else to help you. One thing you could try is opening the PowerPivot management window before trying to open DAX Studio that will ensure that the model is available and loaded into RAM.

New Post: Not connecting to PowerPivot model

DanyHoter — Sun, 12 May 2013 05:56:33 GMT

The model is the most trivial example you can think of.

Dany Hoter

Created Issue: Not_connecting_to_PowerPivot_model_Example [34045]

luowendong — Sat, 11 May 2013 11:53:05 GMT

Not_connecting_to_PowerPivot_model_Example

New Post: Not connecting to PowerPivot model

luowendong — Sat, 11 May 2013 11:46:18 GMT

me too, Because the workbook has two Povit Table, the one based PowerPivot Model, another based Excel.

I have posted an example to issue section.

Thx!

Created Issue: tooltip info in field list [34042]

furmangg — Fri, 10 May 2013 15:44:02 GMT

Some tooltip info in the field list would be very helpful. The first thing it should show is the datatype. As we know, data types matter for certain DAX operations, so it would be handy to have that as a reference without having to open up the model.

I also wonder if when you mouse over a column, it should do a quick count and show you the distinct count on that column so you have an idea of the cardinality and impact to your query.

What else should be in the tooltip?

Thanks for the hard work guys! DAX Studio is very helpful!

New Post: Example of Querying from Tabular Server?

hensonmod — Fri, 10 May 2013 14:06:26 GMT

@dgosbell Thanks so much for your time!

New Post: Example of Querying from Tabular Server?

dgosbell — Fri, 10 May 2013 14:04:53 GMT

I can see that your version in the lower left corner is 10.50 this would make your server 2008R2 - so the only way it could be in a tabular like mode would be if it was installed in Sharepoint as a PowerPivot instance. Even then DAX queries using evaluate were only first support on SQL 2012. We probably should add some checking for that.

New Post: Example of Querying from Tabular Server?

hensonmod — Fri, 10 May 2013 13:31:57 GMT

Even though I thought I heard our IT guys say that the instance of Analysis Services was running in Tabular mode -- I'm wondering if it could be in Multidimensional instead. I'm going to throw on my own installed of SQL server and try writing queries against that.

New Post: Example of Querying from Tabular Server?

hensonmod — Fri, 10 May 2013 12:25:38 GMT

Hey dgosbell, thanks for your quick reply (and your awesome project!)

It's weird, when I drag over a column and drop it into the values( ) function, it works great when I'm pulling from a PivotTable. I just can't seem to get it to work when connected directly to the Tabular database. This is true in SSMS and Dax Studio -- sorry, should have checked SSMS before.

The error I get is,

Query (3, 1) Parser: The syntax for 'values' is incorrect.

Here's a screenshot,

You can probably tell that I work in Higher Education. Still, I wonder why it doesn't work? I can't seem to find much documentation on the EVALUATE statement.

New Post: Not connecting to PowerPivot model

dgosbell — Fri, 10 May 2013 08:26:27 GMT

Are you able to send me an example of a workbook that you can't connect to?

if you click on my codeplex login on the left side of this post I can reply and let you know where to send the file.

New Post: Not connecting to PowerPivot model

DanyHoter — Fri, 10 May 2013 06:47:11 GMT

I installed the add-in on one machine running win8 and Office 2013 64 bit and another running win 2008 R2 server with Office 2013 64 bit
In both cases the add-in does not connect to the internal data model.
I created a simple model and a pivot table connected to the internal model.
Connecting to a tabular model on AS works fine.

New Post: Example of Querying from Tabular Server?

dgosbell — Thu, 09 May 2013 23:12:38 GMT

The syntax is identical for querying PowerPivot or Tabular servers.

Do you get an error when you try to run the query? Have you tried running the same query in an MDX or DMX window in SSMS?

There is no concept of a "cube" as such in tabular when using DAX you simply have a database with tables. The only slight difference when querying a tabular server is that you may need to choose which database to query using the database combo box in the toolbar because a tabular server can have multiple databases where as a PowerPivot workbook only has the one database.

New Post: Example of Querying from Tabular Server?

hensonmod — Thu, 09 May 2013 20:33:44 GMT

I've seen the following example in a few blog posts:

evaluate

values( SomeTableName[SomeColumnName] )

And it seems to work great if DAX Studio detects a PowerPivot column. I can't seem to get it to work though when connecting directly to our Tabular server. Am I missing some syntax for specifying the cube?

Updated Release: 1.2 (with Excel 2013 support) (May 03, 2013)

dgosbell — Sat, 04 May 2013 00:32:01 GMT

This version adds support for installing the addin into Excel 2013 including support for connecting to PowerPivot models.

Note: the Query Table feature is not supported against Excel 2013 PowerPivot models. This feature still works in Excel 2010 or when connected to a Tabular Server, but it was never officially supported by Microsoft and has proved to be unstable in Excel 2013 and has been disabled as it can cause occasional model corruption.

However Excel 2013 does support this method of doing the same thing manually. And we are trying to see if we can hook into this mechanism to re-enable this functionality in a future release.