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Power BI and Essbase - Initial Experiments

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Please go through my previous post that explains how to connect Essbase with Power BI using the Essbase (beta) connector, if you are getting your hands in the first time.

I have tried connecting to two different ASO cubes and share how Essbase reacts while creating a new model in Power-BI.

Initially I have tried connecting the ASOsamp application after loading some random values as shown in the screenshot.

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I have tried selecting each dim from the bottom, it generated the table as displayed in the following screenshot.

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It started freezing when I select all the dims and made the server to crash (I setup a VM with 8 GB RAM, which is not enough to process the request), considering the ASOsamp is a small application compared to the production applications.

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Logs for reference (recreated for this post): https://hastebin.com/esazoyiwix.sql. I prefer not to run it in production and crash the servers.

Then I tried creating very small ASO application and loaded some random data. This time it worked and I was able to get the values as expected.

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If you notice the Period Dimension, the levels represented in Power BI is similar to the Generation that we call in Essbase.

Logs for reference : https://hastebin.com/riqujohufi.sql

Update: Expecting a proper document from Microsoft on connecting essbase from Power BI. Refer the Git issue here.