Slow dimension because it had a default member
问题 I have an SSAS cube that has a dimension with about 500,000 members. Performance is surprisingly good until I had a default member on one of the attributes (a boolean Yes/No value that we default to Yes). This change makes a refresh go from 5 seconds to over 20 minutes. Are default values known to be bad for performance? I can't really see anything on Google suggesting that they are bad performers. For context, when refreshing a PivotTable, Excel was executing a heap of WITH MEMBER statements