I’m experiencing extremely poor performance, measured in multiple minutes, creating a ranked list using CubeSet and CubeRankedMember in Excel 2013 against a PowerPivot table. It appears that the determining factor is the size of the dimension which in
this case is in the tens of thousands. If I use a pivot table the sort on the same dimension is virtually instantaneous but using the CUBE functions is truly frustrating. I am trying to create a "pivotless" report for my stakeholders but I’m about
ready to give up due to the extremely long recalculations. Any advice or workarounds?
jbr