Symptoms
Assume that you run an instance of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 or 2017 Analysis Services in Tabular mode. When you deploy a tabular model database to the instance, you may receive an error message that resembles the following:
Failed to save modifications to the server. Error returned: 'There are ambiguous paths between fact_table_name and dimension_table_name: fact_table_name table_name table_namedimension_table_name and fact_table_nametable_namedimension_table_name
Resolution
This fix is included in the following cumulative updates for SQL Server:
Cumulative Update 1 for SQL Server 2017
Cumulative Update 5 for SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1
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Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
References
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