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Measures throwing unknown exceptions during live connection with SSAS Tabular

Hi,

 

I have posted this in another thread as a reply but would like to ask this in separate thread. We are currently working with the following products:

 

Power BI desktop (June edition) for report server

SSAS Tabular on-premise

SQL Server version: 13.0.4206.0.

 

The issue we are facing is that measures tend to get broken and returning unexpected exceptions as a result from using Power BI desktop. After a redeploy or full processing of the model everything is working as intended. After a while the error occurs again. I have noticed that if I build measures inside Power BI desktop (outside of the model) the measure that I’m using inside a new measure is the one that starts returning unknown exceptions.

 

We have used a simple SUM() measure that stops working when used  with Power BI Desktop during a live connection to a SSAS Tabular Model. It is however working if you browse the SSAS Tabular Model on the server and in a a Excel connection. It has happened that it stops working both in the model and in excel. Then as mentioned above, a process full or redeploy has been necessary.

 

What is really strange is that if we recreate the same measure formula inside Power BI as a new measure, that measure work, but not the one from the model.

 

It seems that there is a problem with the live connection and tabular model that is throwing unexpected errors.

It would be really good if we could give some feedback on this. I have used profiler and the result is as follows:

 

*******

An unexpected exception occurred.


Query Text:
EVALUATE
ROW(
"TableName", 'TableName'[Measure]
)

*******

For the Measure that is created in Power BI the message is this:

EVALUATE
ROW(
"Measure", 'TableName'[Measure]
)

 

Any help would be appreciated

 

Best regards
Gustav

 

Status: Delivered
Comments
v-haibl-msft
Microsoft Employee

@Anonymous

 

I can repro the same issue as you. I’ve reported it internally to Power BI Team: CRI 48140880
I’ll post here once I get any update about it.

 

Best Regards,
Herbert

Vicky_Song
Impactful Individual
Status changed to: Accepted
 
v-haibl-msft
Microsoft Employee

@Anonymous

 

I’ve got response from the Product Team.

 

This is a product defect of SQL Server Analysis Services, not Power BI. The user should file a QFE through Microsoft Customer Support https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/contactus/.

 

Best Regards,
Herbert

Anonymous
Not applicable

We had this same issue and we were able to fix it by installing CU5 on our SSAS server.

Vicky_Song
Impactful Individual
Status changed to: Delivered