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New Post: Microsoft.Excel.AdomdClient.dll could not be found

dgosbell — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 20:46:17 GMT

That file is distributed with Excel 2013 and is not installed in the GAC so this sort of issue is common when first trying to compile the source code on a new machine. You need to find this dll in you Program Files folder and change the project reference to point the location of this file on your system. Or I think if you copy this file to the "Daxtstudio/lib" folder that may be where the reference is currently expecting to find the file (although references paths are often stored as absolute paths in the project files so you still may need to update the reference)

New Post: Microsoft.Excel.AdomdClient.dll could not be found

GeorgeQiao — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 13:10:45 GMT

Hi Gurus,

Just wondering where can I locate Microsoft.Excel.AdomdClient.dll?

I downloaded the source code and get "The referenced component 'Microsoft.Excel.AdomdClient' could not be found." error. Could you please help?

Regards,
George

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

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!

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?

New Post: Thank you so much for this unique product

SirajSamsudeen — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:21:17 GMT

Hi, I am sorry to post a thank-you note on a forum which is meant for issues, questions, etc. I just wanted to express my gratefulness towards the develpers and I don't know which is the appropriate forum for that.

I am just so impressed with this little product and its usefulness to me to debug the queries in Excel PowerPivot. I am new to SSAS and I needed to write some MDX statements to add MDX calculated members to the PowerPivot-enabled PivotTable. This add-in was very handy to debug the issues.

Thank you so much to the entire team involved in this great little product!

New Post: Install with Office 2013 issue

dgosbell — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:00:02 GMT

We are just going through final testing. If you are interested to help us test just click on the "dgosbell" on the left of this post and send me an email. Otherwise we should have something out in the next few days.

Note: we have had to disable the QueryTable feature for Excel 2013 as it does not work reliably and in some cases it even corrupted the workbook.

New Post: DAX Studio Excel 2013 64bit doesn't connect to internal powerpivot workbook

dgosbell — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:59:13 GMT

New Post: Support for excel 2013 preview?

dgosbell — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:58:16 GMT

New Post: where to run it

FedorFFF — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:20:30 GMT

I installed OK on W7 x64
But Not find whereto run it in Excel 2010 ?
I have solutions from Marco Russo book
but where can I run DAX scripts ?

ps I have SQL 2008R2 Full client (main work bnoe)
and Not insrtalled SSMs for 2012
onnly SSDT for BI projects

New Post: Support for excel 2013 preview?

dgosbell — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:45:32 GMT

We have the 2013 version pretty much code complete. I'm just struggling with the installer, I've had to re-build it to try to make it work with Excel 2013 and to make it extensible for some future enhancements we've got in mind. We should have something available in the next week or so.

New Post: Support for excel 2013 preview?

rv7a99cv — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:47:00 GMT

Hi, all of our users are in Excel 2007 and we are upgrading to 2013 skipping 2010 version. I have installed it on 2013 and not working. Do you know when it is going to be ready to be used by Excel 2013?
Thanks you