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SSAS query filter
Dear all, I am facing very long data loading time when trying to connect to SSAS leading to server timeout error. I want to filter the date in the query. This will avoid to load my whole data ...
When using member-filters, you have to select the full string of the element. So it's fast, but not flexible.
For searches like "Starts with..." you have to use Text filters, but then you pay the performance penalty. So try to reduce the imported data by using member filters first and continue with text filters (who will often not fold back).
This sounds as if your filters don't fold back to the server, so instead of filtering the data there and just pulling what's needed, load everything to PowerBI and filter there. SSAS-filters a bit sensitive, make sure you use Member-filters instead of Text-filters:
Thank you very much. It is working now. I did not know this trick before.
Do you know when we should use one or the other?