How to get around SQL Server Analysis Services 2 billion distinct value limitation on a column

Question

What is a best practice to get around SSAS 2 billion distinct value limitation on a column. My data set grows by 2 billions rows every 10 month and one of the measures in the cube is a row count that runs on the PK. Because adding partitions does not help resolve the problem, would creating new cubes with identical info be the right approach?

Answer 1

Do you have to run the count on a column? This should only be necessary if you have duplicates in your table. Could you not just count rows? Then just omit the primary key column.