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When Does Cache Refresh Happen w SSAS?
No problem. No with a live connection the report will always go to the SSAS database. Of course you could set your models to run in memory in the SSAS server and they will be quick to respond.
Hope this helps.
Your link is for the Power BI Service (e.g. hosted in Azure) rather than the on-prem Report Server, so disregard that post.
For connecting the SSAS databases you have two choices, import or connect live. Import will bring that data into the database supporting your Report Server instance. Connect live will connect directly to your SSAS instance.
If choosing import, you will need to setup a data refresh to refresh the data imported into your Report Server instance.
For both options, bear in mind you need to refresh the SSAS instance. We achieve this by issuing an SSAS command at the end of our ETL routines (orchestrated by the SQL agent) which refresh the relevant areas of SSAS.
Thank you very much. To clarify, using a live connection to SSAS there's no way to access cached data, correct? I'm trying to understand if there's some way of using SSAS live connection without querying the SSAS database every time a user views a report.
No problem. No with a live connection the report will always go to the SSAS database. Of course you could set your models to run in memory in the SSAS server and they will be quick to respond.
Hope this helps.