Azure Analysis Services
Do you have an idea or suggestion based on your experience with Analysis Services? We would love to hear from you! Please take a few minutes to submit your idea, or vote up an idea submitted by another customer. All the feedback you share in these forums will be monitored and reviewed by the Analysis Services engineering team. By suggesting or voting for ideas here, you will be among the first to know when it gets done.
Please remember this is only for feature suggestions and ideas! If you have technical questions, please submit a question to our MSDN forum. Azure Analysis Services shares the forum with SQL Server Analysis Services due to same modeling, management tools, etc.
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Present Azure Analysis Services on a VNET
Instead of making Azure AS available on the internet, allow admins to move it so it's only available on a VNET.
145 votesLooking into it. Thanks.
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Snowflake connector for Azure Analysis Service
Please create a connector for Snowflake in Azure Analysis Service. Having to use a on-premise gateway does not really make sense.
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Implement Url and Report custom actions in Azure AS
The custom action for Url and Report was available in SSAS Tabular 1103 using BIDS Helper and relying on the existing infrastructure of Multidimensional. Users in Excel use this feature and this is blocking the upgrade of the model to new compatibility levels (and also stopping the adoption of Azure Analysis Services).
107 votesIt’s on the backlog, just need to get to it…
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Allow support for SSAS Azure in PowerBI Embedded
Allow use of SSAS Azure as a source for PowerBI Embedded.
That's all folks!
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Add schema compare so you can easily deploy particular changes like BISM Normalizer
SSDT Database project already has a schema compare, so you can easily generate deployment script to sync the structure of the database. Since tabular models are now defined in JSON, it would really make sense to have similar functionality for (Azure) Analysis Services.
97 votesThanks for the feedback! Long term, we want to support schema diff functionality in SSDT.
In the meantime, we have it on good authority that BISM Normalizer should get upgraded soon to work with 1400 models.
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Azure AS Data Connections in Excel Online
Support hosting Excel workbooks with live connections to Azure AS in Excel Online (incl workbooks inside Power BI), with pass-through of AAD user identity to AS.
Effectively, complete cloud equivalent for Excel Services in on-prem SharePoint!
95 votesThanks for the feedback. We’ll look into this.
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Support for Hybrid mode
In old versions of SSAS you could have parts of an In-Memory cube/tabular be read directly from a source via Direct Query, this was a great feature. One of the main reason to use Direct Query is that the table you are using doesn't fit in memory and one of the main reasons to use In-Memory is that the source is too slow. Limiting users to choose mode for a whole model is bad.
Please (re-)add support for a hybrid mode where some tables are In-Memory and others are Direct Query. This is important for huge Azure SQL DW solutions…94 votesGreat suggestion. It is on our radar!
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Keep Azure Analysis Tabular & Power BI Models in sync
At present when I dissect a Power BI Desktop model it is compatibility mode of 1400, when I look at AAS model it is still only 1200. It would help if the two were in sync and cross compatible.
82 votesWe are working on it!
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Writeback to tabular model
And a way to incrementally push changes into regular sql after updating of the model.
68 votesOn the backlog …
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Provide Graphical Execution Plan viewer for both Tabular and Multidimensional
Currently understanding what SSAS is doing for a particular specific query is difficult and not that transparent. Having a visual representation of the steps taken by the engine to solve a query (like SQL Server Relational engine has had since SQL 7) would improve manageability
65 votesThanks for the feedback Alejandro. We are looking into it …
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Use in-memory data sets as a base for multiple data models
Duplicating data on in-memory storage is expensive (cost, load times,..). Allowing for the flexibility of having in-memory datasets linked to multiple data models allow for greater flexibility towards end-users while keeping infrastructure price at par. It would also allow for a broader set of customized/tailored data models (mostly related to links between data sets) while still centrally managed.
52 votesWe are looking into it …
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Support Display Folders for Table Objects
Would love to see Display Folder support added for table objects. This would allow developers to logically group tables by entity\purpose\category\etc so they appear together in the object pane without resorting to forced, unnatural naming conventions or unnecessary normalization.
Please note I am not talking about perspectives (which work fine for building targeted subsets of a model to support different groups of users or breaking up large, complex models into more manageable views.) Rather, display folders add a simple and visual way for the modeler to convey additional context to users about the data model and give them a much…50 votesAgreed. There are dependencies on client tools, but we want to do this.
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system-assigned managed identity
It would be nice to allow the creation of system-assigned managed identity this would unblock the ability to use AAS to authenticate directly to a data source such as Azure SQL DB without using a user-created service principal or relying on sql authentication which uses OAuth2 credentials that expire
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/managed-identities-azure-resources/overview
49 votesWill follow-up with the team on this. Stay tuned!
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Support security groups that are in the domain name format, not just the email address format
Please support security groups that are in the domain name format, not just the email address format.
Using the workaround described here can be manual and time-consuming: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlblog/2017/01/24/azure-analysis-services-howto-add-security-group/
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Document TMSCHEMA DMVs
The DMVs for SSAS Tabular (Azure and SQL 2016) are not documented anywhere. While the meaning of many of the fields is obvious, there are a few that are just IDs for which it would be nice to see all possible values and descriptions. It would make sense to add the definitions here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh230820.aspx
39 votesThanks for the feedback Meagan. I have raised it with the docs team and will get back to you.
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Allow managing synonyms in Azure Tabular models
Power BI has a feature that allows you to set synonyms for a column. it would be nice if we could manage those synonyms in a SSAS tabular model and be able to use those synonyms in Power BI when it direct query mode
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Embed RLS Power Bi reports with Analysis Service data (live connection)
The ability to embed Power BI reports from a live Analysis Service data connection and use row-level security to control what data a user can access in a "app owns data" scenario.
For more details, see: http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Service/Azure-Analysis-Services-RLS-and-Embedding/td-p/239127/highlight/false
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Return refreshID in the API response to GET /refreshes/<refreshID>
When I call the POST /refreshes API in order to initiate an asynchronous refresh operation it redirects me to GET /refreshes/<refreshID> and the only way to know what refreshID I just initiated is by parsing the Location header or redirected URL. This is very non-standard. It's also not possible to accomplish this with a Web Activity in ADFv2.
Please change the GET /refreshes/<refreshID> API to return the refreshID as a property inside the JSON response. That's a very easy change and would be tremendously helpful.
This is the API I'm talking about:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/analysis-services/analysis-services-async-refresh#get-refreshesrefreshid35 votes -
Conditional formatting support in Tabular
Please add support for conditional formatting for measures (e.g. http://richardlees.blogspot.com/2008/11/elaborate-your-cubes-with-conditional.html). Some customers have invested in this and is an adoption blocker for tabular.
35 votesThanks for suggesting this. It’s on the backlog for prioritization …
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firewall
At the moment it does not look like it is possible to lock down access to the analysis services public endpoint by IP address. It would be good to have a firewall in a similar way to SQL Azure or Azure Data Warehouse.
35 votes
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