An Informal Compendium of SSAS Errors

When practicing for my MCTS in SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) 2008 R2 last spring, I was shocked to receive a number of errors that Microsoft apparently provided no documentation for. Some of them are unfathomable thanks to wording that is practically cabalistic.1 Worse still, there is little to no mention of some of these errors on major search engines like Google or Yahoo. The discussions referenced in the handful of web pages that do mention these arcane messages tend to be brief and peter out without a satisfactory solution, at best. For all intents and purposes, what this means is that the developer is on their own: no one else on the planet may know the cause or the solution for some of these problems. Somebody wrote the error text for Microsoft, but they're not talking.

• An Informal Compendium of SSAS Errors, Part 1: Introduction
• An Informal Compendium of SSAS Errors, Part 2: Data Mining
• An Informal Compendium of SSAS Errors, Part 3: Unresolved Errors
• An Informal Compendium of SSAS Errors, Part 4: SSAS Object Design
• An Informal Compendium of SSAS Errors, Part 5: Incorrect Calculation Results, Miscellaneous and MDX Studio Errors
• An Informal Compendium of SSAS Errors, Part 6: Common Errors