Drill down slow

Hello everyone

For starters i'm using Microsoft analysis services, integration services and reporting services.

All goes well when creating some general overview reports.

Once i get to making drill down reports with only 2000 rows of data is already starts to work very slow (sometimes takes hours). It seems a data cube is only fast for calculations like SUM, PARALLELPERIOD, ... but if it comes to amount of data it is extreemly weak! 2000 rows is not even alot, i've seen reporting tools beeing able to handle a million rows with drill down function.

I'm thinking that this microsoft tool is just not able to handle reports bigger than 100 rows in it combined with drill down. Please proof me wrong because we already paid for the microsoft tools and it would be a shame if we were not able to use them because of bad functionality...

The machine we work on is quite strong (dual core 2.4 ghz, 4 gig ram, ...)

And yes i know you can make reports clickable so they take the value with them to a next report as a parameters but thats not what we are looking for, we need this drill down to work properly with larger amounts of data.

Hmm, I don't think it's the tool in this case - I have drill down reports with far more data than that and I've never run into 'hours' of execution time. Do you have more detail?

Drill down slow

Hello everyone

For starters i'm using Microsoft analysis services, integration services and reporting services.

All goes well when creating some general overview reports.

Once i get to making drill down reports with only 2000 rows of data is already starts to work very slow (sometimes takes hours). It seems a data cube is only fast for calculations like SUM, PARALLELPERIOD, ... but if it comes to amount of data it is extreemly weak! 2000 rows is not even alot, i've seen reporting tools beeing able to handle a million rows with drill down function.

I'm thinking that this microsoft tool is just not able to handle reports bigger than 100 rows in it combined with drill down. Please proof me wrong because we already paid for the microsoft tools and it would be a shame if we were not able to use them because of bad functionality...

The machine we work on is quite strong (dual core 2.4 ghz, 4 gig ram, ...)

And yes i know you can make reports clickable so they take the value with them to a next report as a parameters but thats not what we are looking for, we need this drill down to work properly with larger amounts of data.

Hmm, I don't think it's the tool in this case - I have drill down reports with far more data than that and I've never run into 'hours' of execution time. Do you have more detail?

Drill down matrix report slow performance

I have created OLAP cubes and we are creating reports on top of them. The reports take incredibly long to render (40 seconds to 5 minutes). The MDX for the reports runs in less than 15 seconds when executed as a query in Mgt. Studio. Browsing is also fast. The reports are drill down matrix-type reports and they do eventually display properly. Not that this should help with the mechanics of the issue but the report data source query will show how we drill across dimensions:

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SELECT NON EMPTY { [Measures].[Number of Queries Run] } ON COLUMNS, NON EMPTY { ([ClientProjectDim].[Project ID].[Project ID].ALLMEMBERS * [UserDim].[UserName].[UserName].ALLMEMBERS * [QueryDim].[Status].[Status].ALLMEMBERS * [DateDim].[Date Hierarchy].[ClusteredHourOfDay].ALLMEMBERS ) } DIMENSION PROPERTIES MEMBER_CAPTION, MEMBER_UNIQUE_NAME ON ROWS FROM [Ad Hoc] CELL PROPERTIES VALUE, BACK_COLOR, FORE_COLOR, FORMATTED_VALUE, FORMAT_STRING, FONT_NAME, FONT_SIZE, FONT_FLAGS

</code>

The RS and security logs don't have anything meaningful. As the MDX works well when executed as a query but not in the reports I can't tell if it's a rendering issue somewhere. Has anyone experienced this issue and is there a resolution aside from restructuring the report?

I am experiencing similar issues but no answers, did you ever resolve youra?|||We did not resolve this, but rather restructured our reports. You might consider this. You can set up your reports with params for drill-through.|||Thanks, however I did parametize this report. I will try to restructure and do this long and laborious way. I noticed in the AS browser and MDX query designer they are using nice drill through tree for the parameters, but no drill through in the rendered form. Is that due to a property setting I am missing.