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.
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Maintenance Windows on AAS
As with other hosted services, uptime and predictability are crucial for our users. We need to have a way of knowing when the server will be brought down for maintenance so we can schedule processing around it and notify our users well in advance.
The best way would be to implement maintenance windows, like SQL DWH, but a short-term fix could be to implement notifications BEFORE server downtime.
Two times in the last week, our automated nightly processing has been interrupted by "Server upgrade/restart". As this is a long-running processing and it is interrupted at the tail-end of the process,…
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Dynamic Format String based on DAX Expression
Allow the Format String property for a measure to be determined by the results of a DAX Expression.
This would be similar to the approach in the below link. However, instead of using the FORMAT() function within the measure's DAX expression, the format should be able to dynamically be set using the Format String property of the measure.
https://christianwade.wordpress.com/2012/08/21/currency-conversion-formatting-symbols-in-tabular/
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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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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
10 votesWill follow-up with the team on this. Stay tuned!
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Option to allow all Azure services through the firewall
Azure Analysis Services has a firewall option since 2017. However, there is only a tick box to allow Power BI to access it. For every other Azure service, you manually need to add the IP address ranges of the specific datacenter region to the firewall. This is manual labor, prone to errors and not like some other services such as SQL server, Storage Accounts and Key Vault which do provide an easy tick box to allow all Azure services.
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15 votes
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Import Power BI Datamodels (pbix, Power Bi Service ) into Azure Analysis Services (successor of Web Designer)
The Azure Analysis Services Web designer was discontinued on March 1, 2019, leaving no option to import Power Bi desktop Files (pbix) or Datamodels from Power Bi service into Azure Analysis Services (AAS) Instance. Therefore respective new functionality is required.
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Databricks
AAS should be able to connect to the Databricks ODBC server, just like it can connect to HDInsight and just like PowerBI can connect to the Databricks ODBC server.
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How to perform Load testing on Azure Analysis Services
A load testing where a same query would be fired on AAS tabular model concurrently which would the give us the metric of query execution time and AAS support load count.
This testing need to be performed. Any guidance on this.6 votes -
Enable Analysis service to access same region VNET Integrated services
Analysis service can not pull data from azure storage account if the VNET Integration is enabled on the storage account in the same region.
Enable VNET Integration like App Service VNET Integration preview feature as one example.
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Support ADLS Gen2
Please add ADLS Gen2 as a supported data source to Azure Analysis Services.
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Allow GUI support to change between M and SQL query type in SSDT
Working on existing compatibility level 1200 model project migrating to compatibility level 1400 model project require user to edit or re-create data sources and changing partitions from query type SQL to M language manually. It will be great to have an option to change existing query type from M language to SQL and vice versa in the designer view.
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Direct Query Mode to Exasol database
The user community for Exasol's analytic database is rapidly growing. As of now it is possible to access on premise Exasol databases in direct query mode from Power BI. However, direct query access from Azure Analysis Services is not yet possible. For all companies that run an Exasol BI database it is absolutely necessary to have direct query mode through AAS - rather than through Power BI.
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does Azure Analysis Service support Azure databricks delta table ?
does Azure Analysis Service supports Azure databricks delta table ? If yes How does it ?
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Allow user priority to boost users' execution priority
It would be really useful to allow a user priority value, so users with higher priorities get execution priority too, and their queries will preempt lower priority requests.
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Key Vault for Connection string using secrets
The Key Vault implementation is widely accepted for security reasons and greatly simplifies the work of rotating / change passwords using secrets. When you have a big number of models this becomes a tedious job if you have hundred of models on top of a data warehouse.
The super awesomeness would be to be able to configure and entire connection from the secrets. When changing environments (Dev to QA or QA to Prod) would just take changing Key Vaults.
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Highly Available SSAS through syncing
I'm trying to implement an automated fail-over solution. Read https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/analysis-services/analysis-services-bcdr but the solutions are not automated fail-overs.
I'm wondering if using the sync feature of SSAS to sync secondary with the primary (after processing is done on primary) is a stable and feasible solution?1 vote -
Provide Process Logging
There doesn't appear to be any way to observe a model being processed. For example if I start a model process with the asynchronous REST API, I can't find out afterwards (i.e. by logging in through SSMS) what is currently executing and what is complete. XEvents don't appear to provide me with this information either.
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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…44 votesAgreed. There are dependencies on client tools, but we want to do this.
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Use Analysis Service in Dual mode as i want to do some tables as 'In Memory' and some tables as "Direct Query" implementation.
I want to improve our PowerBi performance using 'Direct Query' Model so i want to use Analysis Service in Dual mode as i want to do some tables as 'In Memory' and some tables as "Direct Query" implementation to make help in Query Performance .
4 votes
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