From SSAS 2012 to SSAS 2016

  • Has anyone upgraded from 2012 to 2016 yet? If so, what are some challenges? How did you verify that the Tabular models and/or Multidimensional cubes migrated over properly?

  • For multidimensional, normally there aren't any issues to be expected since not much has changed.

    However, one of my clients hit a bug where they could only deploy/process a cube once. After that, deploying or processing the cube would get time-outs or it would even shut the instance down. Very weird bug, but doesn't mean everyone will encounter it.

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  • Thanks for the feedback. By the way, what type of tools were used to confirm that source and destination were the same?

  • imani_technology (9/30/2016)


    Thanks for the feedback. By the way, what type of tools were used to confirm that source and destination were the same?

    Not sure what you mean. Which source/destination?

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  • source = old system = SSAS 2012

    destination = new system = SSAS 2016

  • It was the same project deployed to the new server.

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  • That makes sense. I guess one can assume that the same project deployed to a new server should have the same number of rows, etc. Was anything done to verify that?

  • imani_technology (10/3/2016)


    That makes sense. I guess one can assume that the same project deployed to a new server should have the same number of rows, etc. Was anything done to verify that?

    Yes, the reports still showed the same data.

    The problem was that a bug prevented the cube from being deployed/processed multiple times.

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