You can read about my adventures at the company and with the product at Tableau Love

The Business Intelligence site for Russell Christopher is here: http://performancepointblog.com

 http://performancepointblog.com/2008/07/proof-positive-that-ssrs-2008-is-superior-to-ssrs-2005/

http://performancepointblog.com/2008/06/sql-reporting-services-what-does-that-thread-pool-pressure-warning-mean/

So, this'll be my last post here. If you'd like, feel free to read my inaugural post out there 

The PerformancePoint Add-in for Excel could not be loaded. The language pack for the configured language could not be found. Please install the multilingual user interface pack for your version of Office or set the operating system locale to the same locale as that set for Office

The add-in always wants to see that the regional settings of your operating system and Office are the same. OK, good so far. The add-in also expects (I’m not sure why) those settings to use the core language, too. In other words, German (Germany) or Spanish (Spain) are good, but German (Austria) and Spanish (Peru) are not – stinks if you’re in Peru or Austria, eh?

Never fear, because there’s a workaround can you use to deal with the behavior above -  Just make sure that you have the language packs for both locales (German (Germany) and German (Austria), for example) installed on the machine. You can use http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/win2k/setup/lcid.mspx for locale-specific information, by the way.

…But what happens if the locale you want to use, like German (Austria) doesn’t even have a language pack? Well, there’s a solution for that, too:

1.       Install the language pack for your “core” language on the machine in question – German (Germany) will lay down C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\1031

2.       Create a copy of the folder above (including all the files inside it), and then rename it to the correct LCID value (use the link above to determine what the value is). For German (Austria) we’d create C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\3079.

At this point, you should be in pretty good shape.

 After creating my web reference, I got this error:

Custom tool error: Unable to import WebService/Schema. Unable to import binding 'ReportingService2006Soap' from namespace 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2006/03/15/reporting/reportingservices'. Unable to import operation 'SetReportHistoryOptions'. The XML element named 'ScheduleDefinition' from namespace 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2006/03/15/reporting/reportingservices' is already present in the current scope. C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\MakeAModel\Properties\Settings.settings 1 1 MakeAModel

After much scratching of the head, grumbling, and beating of the breast, I checked our internal bug database and found that this is a known issue (there's no KB article however).

So, I held by breath, cracked open the WSDL and started deleting every element which referred to the SetReportHistoryOption operation since I didn't need this method anyway. After I saved my changes, the error message didn't go away. I shut down VS, reloaded my project, built it, and all was well in my world. I'm attaching my hacked WSDL for your viewing pleasure.

ReportService2006.wsdl

Things went fairly well while my partitions were MOLAP. But when I started changing some of them to ROLAP, SSAS threw the following exception when I tried  to process:

Errors in the high-level relational engine. The following exception occurred while the managed IDbConnection interface was being used: The isolation level is not supported by this version of Teradata Database.

After a bit of playing, I found that the issue had to do with including aggregations on these partitions – you can’t. When I set the aggs to 0%, everything worked perfectly. Shortly afterwards,  a colleague forwarded me additional information on the subject, which will be included in a soon-to-be released Teradata/SSAS whitepaper:

ROLAP aggregations: An Analysis Services cube partition that uses ROLAP partition storage with the Teradata Database, must be defined with zero aggregations. This issue is discussed in Designing Partition Storage and Aggregations section. Recommendation to use AJI for performance