Analysis :: List All Dimension And Fact Column Names
Feb 24, 2011I am using sql server 2005 enterprise edition.
How to list all the dimension and fact column names with mdx or tsql query...
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Analysis :: Sorting Dimension Members From Fact
Dec 2, 2015I've got a dimension built from a fact (whatever that's called?) ... it's a date interval field, i.e. 0-5 weeks, 6-10 weeks 11+ weeks. How do I sort these members in the respective order? Looks like this currently:
The problem lies in the fact that I don't have any secondary attributes to order it by, i.e. it's not a physical dimension where I can use a key for the 3 members. I was hoping I wouldn't need to create a separate dimension to get round this.
Analysis :: Role Playing Dimension Among Multiple Fact Tables
Oct 28, 2015I am modelling cube in SSAS. Cube has around 20 dimensions and 6 fact tables. Some of the dimensions are common among the fact tables. e.g. Time dimension. Fact_PNL has 3 date columns for those we have 3 role playing dimensions in the dimension usages.
Another fact table has 5 date columns for them as well we have separate role playing dimensions in dimension usage tab. We have a common dimension Company which is foreign key in all fact tables. We might need to combine the data from multiple facts to get final output.
Should i create 6 role playing dimension for each of the fact table or use the same dimension for all fact tables?
Role playing dimensions should be created when we have multiple columns pointing to the same dimension ?
Analysis :: SSAS Design - Multiple Keys Of Same Dimension In Fact Table
Mar 19, 2012I am developing a BI solution on SQL Server 2008 R2 and how to handle multiple referances to the same dimension from a fact table!
Here is the scenario;
Fact_Contracts (# M)
ServiceProvider_CompanyID, Client_CompanyID, Amount_USD
Dim_Company( hundreds)
ID, CityID, ProfessionID, CompanyName
Dim_City
ID, CityName
Dim_Profession
ID, ProfessionName
As u can see there is two company references in my fact table, and the schema is in snowflake. My customer requirements state that the Contracts' amounts can be aggregated/filtered for/by, ServiceProviderCompany, its city/profession or ClientCompay, its city/profession.
First thing came in to my mind is to dublicate whole dimension structure (one for serviceproviders, one for clients), which i thought that there should be another way around?
Analysis :: Browsing Measure Via Fact Dimension Showing Incorrect Data?
Sep 6, 2011I have a Fact table that contains several degenerate string values that I have pulled into a Fact Dimension.
When I browse the cube and cut one of the measures by an attribute from the Fact Dimension, I am getting incorrect data.
In other words, when I query the fact table directly via SQL and apply the same filters, I see the data I am expecting to see. But cube browse with same filters yields different results.
How can this happen since the fact dimension has a 1:1 relationship with the fact table.
I do have the Dimension Usage configured properly.
Is this an aggregation thing? Attribute key thing? What am I missing?
Analysis :: Show Dimension Names In MDX Query Result
Oct 28, 2015I am facing an issue in MDX Query. I have a custom MDX query, When I run the query I am getting results too. Now my requirement is to show the dimension names in the query result, So that I can get those header names in the cell set itself. Please see the below image.
In this image I need to show 'Fiscal Year' and 'Fiscal Quarter' in that highlighted area. Is there any custom query for this?
Analysis :: How To Change The Member Names Of Time Dimension
Oct 19, 2015<SQL Server 2008 R2>
I created a Time table using BIS. I found that the default naming of time members is too long and redundant.
For example, the wizard generated "Fiscal Calendar 2015", "Fiscal Quarter 1, 2015", etc. However, shorter expression like "FY2015", "FQ1 2015", etc would be enough for me.
Is it possible to change the default naming rule, or does SSAS works correctly if I update the Time table values using SQL?
Analysis :: Hierarchy Based On Dimension Table Joined Multiple Times Against A Fact Table?
Aug 11, 2015I am working on a model where I have a sales fact table. Each fact record has four different customer fields (ship- to, sold-to, payer, and bill-to customer). I have one customer dimension table that joins to the sales fact table four times (once for each of the customer fields above). When viewing the data in Excel, I would like to have four hierarchies (ship -to, sold-to, payer, and bill-to customer) within Customer.
Is there a way to build hierarchies within my Customer dimension based on the same Customer table? What I want is to view the data in Excel and see the Customer dimension. Within Customer, I want four hierarchies.
Analysis :: MDX - Putting A List In Where Clause That Includes A Dimension Already Mention In Crossjoin
Sep 22, 2015SO I have a need to to limit the members of a dimension that get included with a query to just a few. So that means specifying which ones. How do I limit the main set based on a defined list of members in one of the dimensions im using.
In the query below, I need to limit the number of dimension members being included for CommType and MetricType. I get errors if I use a list of specific members in a where clause that includes these same dimensions.
WITH
MEMBER [Measures].[YTD Actual]
AS
SUM({[DimCalendar].[Month Year].&[2015]&[1] : STRTOMEMBER('[DimCalendar].[Month Year].&[' + CSTR(YEAR(NOW())) + ']&[5]') }
, [Measures].[Actual]
[Code] ....
Analysis :: How To Get Distinct List Of Member Values For Month Numbers From Date Dimension
Sep 10, 2015Have a need to let the user select the year and month to use for filtering results from an MDX query that populates a report.I think all I should need is a list of years and a Month name / number.What would the filter look like if say I had a Date dimension that included the year number in a 4-digit and month in a 2-digit number? In TSQL it would be something like ... where Month = @month AND Year = @year...How do I get a distinct list of member values for the month numbers from the Date dimension?
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Oct 26, 2015When i add a dimension to the cube dimension without any relation in my dimension usage to any measure group my units are going down.However when i remove the dimension from the cube am getting the correct values.
View 4 Replies View RelatedSQL To List Column Names
Nov 26, 2002Can anyone help me with a SQL statement that will list all the column names in a table please ?
I just want to list out the column name so that i can develop asp/vb more effectively than having to use SQLEM and Design table to see the field names.:confused:
thanks
FatherJack
List Column Names Of Sql Table
Mar 20, 2008I know it is basics, just slipped out of my mind, How do we list or print the columns names of table in sql server 2000.
thanks,
List Table Names In A Database Having A Particular Column.
Aug 3, 2007Can anybody tell me how to find out whether a particular column exists in any of the tables of a database and if it does, display the table names?
Thanks
GROUP BY Expressions Must Refer To Column Names That Appear In The Select List.
Jan 19, 2008Hi,
Is there any way to group variables present in a select statement.
My code:
SELECT @var1=something, @var2=something_else
FROM ...
GROUP BY @var1
I wanted to group by 'something' hence I used a variable to assign it to. But I'm unable to group it.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Subha
Understanding Dimension And Fact
Sep 12, 2007A few questions:
1) We have numerous fact tables with surrogate keys which reference just one dimensional surrogate key. How does this work?
2) Are the ‘facts’ feeding data TO the ‘dimensions’ (back end warehousing)? Or are the ‘Dimensions’ feeding facts to the ‘facts’ tables for lookups!?
Nb: Im very inexperienced at database design.
Im really also using this thread to get contacts for future harder questions!
Thanks kindly
Fact Fields -&> Dimension Attributes
Feb 13, 2008I have a fact table that has terminations. Fields include EmployeeName, TermDate, TermReason, and HireDate, et al.
I need to make EmployeeName available to drillthrough, and since it's a varchar field I can't make it a measure, so it has to be a dimension attribute. My question is, should I leave the fact table as it is and use SSAS to create a dimension that contains only EmployeeName and the link to TerminationID? Or should I redesign the OLAP tables so that EmployeeName is in a separate table?
Update In Fact Table (not Dimension With SCD)
May 7, 2008Dear all,
Now I create datawarehouse for my client, I have SSIS a lot for ETL process, I a problem that some fact table need to be updatetable and there is a lot of data of this, I need some efficent way to load this data to data warehouse.
I have read your article about SCD in SSIS (Slowly Changing Dimensions in SQL Server 2005).
I think the purpose of SCD for Dimension table. If I have some fact table that need rows to be updatetable can you give me an example, best practice, the efficient way or fastet way to load fact table that can be updatetable?
If you have link or link about this problem please reply my email. Thanks
My datasource from ORACLE and my datawarehouse in mssql2005
Regards,
Hendrik Gunawan
From Dimension Tables To Fact Table
Feb 6, 2008Hi All,
What is the best way to move data from Online system tro data warehouse?
I have created 3 dimension tables(product,date and customer tables) and
I wanna create fact table and get foreign keys from dimension tables.
What is the best method to do that in SSIS?
thanks
SSIS (DImension And Fact Tables)
May 16, 2007Hi,
I am new at SSIS and I am trying to create a Datawarehouse using SSIS. I have the data files as flat files I have the Dimensional Model ready on Paper and Now I need to use the SSIS for the ETL process.
I am trying to figure out how to make dimension tables in SSIS? I mean I want to create the 5 Dimension tables and then create a Fact table out of it but I cant understand where to start? Can any one tell me how we create Dimesion tables in SSIS. Like one of the dimesion tables I need to create uses 2 flat files and is like a flattened dimension, How would I create this in SSIS?
Even if there is any tutorial which shows this step by step do let me know. I would really appreciate any guidance on this.
Thanks,
Sarang
SQL 2012 :: Creating Dimension From Fact Table?
Dec 19, 2014 I have a fact table with few flag columns.
What is the best way to bring them to dimension?
Do I need to create dimension(dummy) from fact table for each flag or all flags in single dimension?
Copying Dimension And Fact Tables From One Database To Another...
Dec 17, 2007Hi there, my question is really simple. I want to setup an automatic task in SSIS that drops the tables in the target database and substitutes them with tables from the source database. We are talking about two or three dimension tables and one fact table. The dimension tables are pretty small. The fact table will contain, at maximum, 300,000 rows and 12 columns. I do not use delta or flag historisation btw. What tasks in SSIS would you suggest to use?
BTW I'm new to SSIS... ;-) Thanks in advance!
Missing Dimension Member During Fact Load
Aug 15, 2007
I'm putting together a Kimball method SSIS package. My factSales table has an OrderRep key. If a match isn't found in the dimRep table I am inserting a dummy dimRep row and going on. That seems to be working.
My question is what do I do when the OLTP sales row has NULL for the OrderRep. This is possible; every sale does not have to have an order rep. My package is seeing that as a non match and trying to create a dummy row in the dimRep table for every NULL. I really don't want to do this. I can trap for the NULL rep and convert it to "unknown" or something but then the program would still create a single row in the dimRep table for unknown. Is that the best way to handle this? Or is there a way to trap for NULL and ignore the entire lookup process? A conditional split before every key lookup?
I have about 5 or 6 other dimension tables that will have the same NULL possibility.
Thanks.
Load Ordering For Dimension And Fact Tables
Sep 22, 2006Hi ,
I have situation where I get data from SRC Flat file and have to load Dimensional table and also fact table, using same data flow(have no other choice since I have to unpivot some src data). Since I have to load both tables in same data flow, I have to have a way to put load ordering constraint (I know informatica allows that). Does any one have any idea on how this can be done in SSIS?
I would be really grateful.
Thanks
How To Load Fact Table And Dimension Using SSIS?
Aug 25, 2006Hi All,
I am just curious to know how I can load data from a data warehouse to an Analysis Service Cube (both to the fact tables and dimensions).
Does any body have some way to achieve this?
I appreciate if any body provide me a good material which describe this scenario.
Sincerely,
--Amde
Loading Fact Using Dimension W/ Ragged Hierarchy (geography)
Jul 27, 2007 I'm loading a fact table that has several geographic attributes - some are at the state level, some are at the county level, and then some are drilled farther in that that. I understand the basic concept of the dimension with the ragged hierarchy, but unsure of how to load to the fact table using lookups based on these geographic units. For example, if my geographic dimension contains 200 records for the state of Wyoming, basically a record for each fine-grain place (i.e. city/town), then how do I go about doing a county lookup. Wyoming only has 23 counties, but because of the repetitive nature of the dimension attributes that are not at the finest grain, I'll get more records in the lookup than I need. This activity repeats of course while I move up the geographic scale to state, then country. How do I configure/fill my dimension to handle these differing scales of data?
Analysis :: Bitmask Column Values As Dimension Values
Jun 18, 2015Bitmask fields! I am capturing row changes manually via a high frequency ETL task. It works effectively however i am capturing the movement of multiple fields. A simple example, for Order lines, i have a price, a discount and a date. I am capturing a 001, 010, 100 respectively for each change.
I would like my users to be able to select from a dimension which has the 3 members in it and they can select one, multiples, or all values (i.e. only want to see rows that have had the date and price changed).
Obviously if i only had 3 columns i would use bit's and be done with it, i have many different values (currently around 24 and growing).
Lookup Current Id In Kimball Type II Dimension For Fact Rows
May 8, 2007Hi all,
Maybe someone here can help me out: I have a Kimball type II dimension, where i track changes in a hierarchy. Each row has a RowStartDate and RowEndDate property to indicate from when to when a certain row should be used.
Now i want to load facts to that table. So each fact will have a certain date associated with it that i can use to lookup the right Id (a certain SourceId can have mulitiple integer Ids when there are historic changes) and then load the facts.
Is there a building block I can use for that? I could do this with SQL scripts but the client would prefer to have as much as possible done in SSIS. The Lookup transformation will only let me specify an equal (inner join where A=B) join, but i need equal for one column (SourceId) and then >= and <= (RowStart and RowEnd) to find the right row version.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance,
John
Fact Table With 3 Keys From Dimension Tables - Avoid Populating NULLs
Jun 10, 2014I created a Fact Table with 3 Keys from dimension tables, like Customer Key, property key and territory key. Since I can ONLY have one Identity key on a table, what do I need to do to avoid populating NULLs on these columns..
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Aug 3, 2015I have built a fact table and few dimension views in Datamart with the aim of creating a Cube.
On the Fact table I have added a CASE Statement with the following threshold for Premium due amounts:
CASE WHEN....
'Due_0-1_Month'
'Due_1-2_Month'
'Due_2-3_Month'
'Due_Over_3_Months'
'Overdue_0-1_Month'
'Overdue_1-3_Month'
'Overdue_3-6_Month'
'Overdue_Over_6_Months'
...END
I then created a Dimension to link this to:
CREATE VIEW...
Select 'Due_0-1_Month' as Ageing_Threshold
union all
Select 'Due_1-2_Month'
union all
Select 'Due_2-3_Month'
[Code] ....
I was successful in processing the cube, however the problem is everytime I drag the dimension on the columns field in Pivot tables the Thresholds start to break up the other amounts that I have on display like Acquisition Costs, Tax amounts. I am only interested in showing the breakdown of Premium amount measure by the Threshold dimension.
somehow 'Hide' or 'prevent' the Threshold dimension from breaking down the other measures on the Pivot and only breakdown the amounts for Premium?
how I should structure my tables in SQL or any MDX queries to resolve this.
Integration Services :: Mapping Correct Surrogate Keys In Fact Table After Performing SCD Type 2 On Dimension
Nov 5, 2015I have dimension data like this
persn_key persn_id address is_active updated_date
1 10 NYC 0 2015-11-04 14:19:54.817
2 10 Chicago 1 null
and Fact table like
fact_key persn_key units_purchased
1 1 10
persn_key is the surrogate key between tables.
My question here is as the dimension has SCD type 2 on it and every time when there is a change the persn_key gets a new key value but the fact table still points to oldest key.how to update the surrogate key on fact table to the current key value? As per the requirement fact surrogate key must be pointing to current active record on the dimension.
SQL Analysis Services - Fact Table
Nov 17, 2004i face a problem to create a new cube with the fact table without numeric field as a measure. can i use others data type of field as a measures?
anyone can provide me a solutions to solve it? thank you ..