I have date and float in attribute in a dimension table. If deploy my cube and I try to create a report with RS, I can't format this data. The value seems to be a String so I have to do a CDate or a CDbl before formating it.
I have no problem when I try to format my measures.
Thanks for your help.
Cheers,
Many dimensions don't have unique members. Instead, the dimension source data has duplicates at the leaf level: it's left up to SSAS to aggregate up to the actual leaf level used in hierarchies.
Every cube I've worked on in the past, a dimension is clearly defined in the source data, with uniqueness already present there: we don't make a dimension out of duplicated, sort of facty data. This kind of design seems as weird to me as an unnormalised SQL database.
Here's an example to illustrate what I mean; I'll use that Adventureworks database.
We have a Geography dimension with a Geography hierarchy. Levels go like this from top to bottom:
Country
State-Province
City
Postcode
The Geography dimension has a key attribute called Geography Key. It's there in the cube design as a dimension attribute, but it's not in any of the hierarchies, so I can't query it in MDX. But that's fine: it has the same cardinality as the lowest level (Postal Code), because the dimension has some kind of normal design.
In the cube I'm dealing with, it's all messed up. Using the AdventureWorks example above as a parallel, someone made a Geography dimension with source data keyed on [PostalCode, ExactAddress], but only wanted the dimension granularity to be PostalCode.
This makes it very hard to debug why the data in this dimension is incorrect. I can't match up the dimension members in the cube to the source data, because the dimension doesn't actually go down to the real leaf level!
So I have a dimension attribute called ExactAddressKey, but I can't query on it in MDX, because it's not part of any dimension hierarchy. Unfortunately changing any part of this cube design is not possible, so I can't even experiment with settings and see what happens.
How I could get to the leaf level of the data imported? Something like
Geography.Geography.TheInvisibleLeafLevel.Members.Properties('Key')
Or does this kind of dimension design result in SSAS discarding all the data that's more granular than the most granular attribute defined in any hierarchy - so that the data actually isn't there to be queried?
Hello SSAS gurus,
Recently i started learning working on Analysis services and writing MDX expressions, so please forgive my ignorance if this is a trivial question.
I ran out of s. Don't know what I should do to fix this. Please point me in the right direction.
We have a cube with one fact table(Imperative Fact) and two dimensions (Client, Client Imperative). A Client has several Imperatives. One of the attributes of Client Imperative dimension is Target Outcome. This is a text field.
We created a measure Client Imperative Count that gives the number of imperatives a client has.
The business defined 'Client Imperative' KPI as following :
If client has 1 or more imperatives and has Target outcome then show green. If client has 1 or more imperatives and does not haveTarget outcome then show yellow. if the client does not have imperative then show red.
Wrote the following KPI Status expression but it doesn't seem to work. Hitting a dead end. couldn't figure this out.
Code Snippet
Case
When
[Measures].[Client Imperatives Count] > 0
And
([Client Imperatives].[TRGT OTCM].currentmember <> null)
or
(Not IsEmpty([Client Imperatives].[TRGT OTCM].currentmember))
Then 1
When
[Measures].[Client Imperatives Count] > 0
And
([Client Imperatives].[TRGT OTCM].currentmember = null)
or
(IsEmpty([Client Imperatives].[TRGT OTCM].currentmember))
Then 0
Else
-1
End
Tried [Client Imperatives].[TRGT OTCM].value but didn't work.
Also, tried to create a calculated member for Target Outcome using following code. It is not working either.
Code Snippet
CALCULATE;
CREATE MEMBER CURRENTCUBE.[MEASURES].[Target Outcome]
AS case
when
[Client Imperatives].[TRGT OTCM].currentmember = [Client Imperatives].[TRGT OTCM].&[]
then 0
else 1
end,
VISIBLE = 1 ;
Trying to figure this out since two days. Somebody please help me.
I appreciate your help.
Hello
I am a newbye with Analysis Services and am desperately trying to find a way to include a calculation between one of my measures (Teus), divided by the vessel capacity, where vessel is one of my dimensions (and is therefore not depended on other dimensions...)
Any ideas how I could implement that ?? This would help a lot, thanks for your help,
Aurore Bui.
I have 2 dimensions that pull their Facility Name from the same Location Dimension. The business users want to change Facility Name in the Material Facilities dimension to “Material Facility Name”, but keep Facilities dimension attribute the same. What is a good way to go about completing this task.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am unable to find solution for the problem while writing a Named Set in my cube.
I have a calculated measures which gives me difference in Sales in PERCENTAGE (%).
When I try to filter out those product codes which went a less than 5 %, I get no records.
I have also tried to filter direct values lets say - Products with sales > 100000 which is working fine.
Following is sample of my Named Set
FILTER([X].[Products Code].members, [Measures].[Diff in Sales]<5)
I believe as the values are in percentage, I am facing this issue.
hi all,
I was wondering if it is possible in SSAS 2005 that a calculated member is based off of an (integer) dimension attribute and another (integer) measure (let's say a multiplication operation) ?
If there a trick on doing so? other than stuffing the (integer) dimension attribute back in the fact table, as an measure?
thx much,
Cos
Hi all
Probably not the right forum - pointers would be appreciated - but I'll give it a try anyway:
I'm in the process of designing a relational database to be used in a BI scenario - ie. dimension and fact tables. The data will eventually be used to feed cubes in Analysis services, however end users will probably be allowed to run reports aginst views of the relational database.
I'm currently looking at the employee dimensions and my first try would designate AGE as a SCD Type 2 attribute. As a result every employee gets at least one new record every year as AGE increases. Given that BIRTHDATE is specified should I drop AGE from the tables and recreate it as a computed attribute in database views and/or cubes?
Regards, Steen
I have a cube with a fact table and 3 dimensions. One of the dimensions is a type 2 and surrogate key is stored in fact table. If i query the database, the dimension attributes display correctly, however the cube is always displaying the latest dimension attribute and not preserving the history.
The measures are correct for the time period displayed, but the dimension attributes always show the latest values.
I am in the process of develping a MSRS report using an MSAS 2005 OLAP cube as my data source. In the MSRS Query Builder, I am using an MDX query which successfully executes in Management Studio. Something like the following:
SELECT
NON EMPTY { [Measures].[Fact Count] }
ON COLUMNS,
NON EMPTY{ ( [Dim Attribute].[Hierarchy Not Visible].ALLMEMBERS) } DIMENSION PROPERTIES MEMBER_CAPTION, MEMBER_UNIQUE_NAME
ON ROWS
FROM [MyCube]
CELL PROPERTIES VALUE, BACK_COLOR, FORE_COLOR, FORMATTED_VALUE, FORMAT_STRING, FONT_NAME, FONT_SIZE, FONT_FLAGS
The twist is that the AttributeHierarchyVisible property of the [Dim Attribute].[Hierarchy Not Visible] is set to False.
As mentioned previously, the query successfully executes in Management Studio. However when it is executed in the MSRS Query Builder, the following error message is displayed:
The query cannot be prepared: The query must have at least one axis. The first axis of the query should not have multiple hierarchies, nor should it reference any dimension other than the Measures dimension..
Parameter name: mdx (MDXQueryGenerator)
Is there a way to successfully query dimension attributes whose hierarchies are not visible?
Thanks.
In my SSAS Cube I have created a dynamic named set "top 10 e-learnings by language" which consists out of a set of tuples. Each tuple has two attributes out of the same base dimension "training": attribute 1 is "sprache" (language) and attribute 2 is "training text".
CREATE DYNAMIC SET CURRENTCUBE.[Top 10 eTrainings pro Sprache]
AS Generate(
{ [Training].[Sprache].[Sprache].Members },
TopCount(
EXISTING { [Training].[Sprache].CurrentMember * [Training].[Training Text].[Training Text].Members },
10,
[Measures].[Teilnahmen eTraining]
)
), DISPLAY_FOLDER = 'Training' ;
Normally a named set would be automatically visible in Excel Pivot under the dimension you used to create the named set, but it seems that named sets with tuples which have more than one attribute are placed in a separate folder "Sets" in between the measures and dimensions.Additionally in the SSAS cube browser this named set is not visible at all.Is there any way to tell the named set in which dimension it should appear or any workaround?
I have a Slowly changing dimension that I am using to
populate a dimension table. My problem is this when I run the package and
any of the fields are marked as Historical Attributes it will add an additional
row regardless of the fact that the incoming data and the data in the warehouse
match exactly.
I've tried several things to fix this problem but so far none of them have
worked. Some of the things I have tried that havent worked are to match
all the data types (which I have to do anyways) I've tried trimming the
strings, I've also tried adding just one column
I am using a data conversion to convert them from varchar (the source datatype)
to nvarchar(the warehouse datatype)
I'm at a dead end here and don't know where to go any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
I have a dimension report with an attribute reporttype which have different member let say A,B,C,D....etc.
I want to set more than one default members for dimension report.
I've read all about how dimensions can have only one default member, but I need to set more than 1.
I am trying to implement data masking based on user login and not sure why this is not working. I have the dimensions DimBrand, DimProduct and DimUser. I should mask the BrandCode with 'XXXX' nothing but in the report all the BrandCode should appear but few of the code will be masked if the user is not belongs to that group. I have a fact table FactProduct in this. In the cube I created all these 3 dimensions and the fact table. I created a new dimension DimBrandMask and I separated the code over there with a relationship with the actual DimBrand dimension. In the cube a reference relationship is set up with the measure group. Created a role with read access.
In the dimension data tab of role I put the below MDX to allowed set.
NonEmpty([DimBrandMask].[Brand Code].Members, (StrToMember("[DimUser].[Login Name].[Login Name].[" + UserName() + "]") ,[Measures].[Dim User Count]))
And in Denied Member set i put the below MDX
IIF( (StrToMember("[DimUser].[Login Name].[Login Name].[" + UserName() + "]"), [DimUser].[Access Right].&[False]), NONEMPTY( [DimBrandMask].[Brand Code].Members,(StrToMember("[DimUser].[Login Name].[Login Name].["
+ UserName() + "]"), [DimUser].[Access Right].&[False], [Measures].[Dim User Count])),{})
Note I created one measure group from the DimUser table and the measure [Dim User Count] is used in the above query.
I am expecting some result like below
Brand BrandCode Count
Brand1 b1 6
Brand2 XXXXX 5
Brand3 XXXXX 10
When 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 RelatedI want to insert attibute att1 in field F1 . Value for this attribute is content of another field in this table (F2).
My query :
update MyTable
set F1.modify
('insert attribute att1 {sql:column("F2")} into (/ROOT/Node1)[1]')
Where F1 Is not null
But I get this error :
XML well-formedness check: Duplicate attribute 'att1'. Rewrite your XQuery so it returns well-formed XML.
How do I check the douplicate attribute ?
HI,
I had to change the key columns of a dimension attribute to fix an error. I did this in BIDS. The change was from a single key column to a composite key column. Now I am getting these error when I process the cube:
Measure group attribute key column x does not match source attribute ..
I looked at the cube XMLA definition under mesaure groups and it still shows a single key column with inherited binding. However, the BIDS does not give me an option correct this in any way. I have had to do this once before and the only option seems to be removing the dimension from the cube and add it back in. But that is very error prone since I lose any specific settings at the cube dimension level not to mention aggregations no longer include the dimension, etc.
Not seeing an alternative, I went through each measure group (I have 7) and changed the key columns manually in the XMLA and saved the cube. This worked, but I don't understand why BIDS automatically doesn't do it.
Is this a flaw in the BIDS or I should be missing something.
thanks
MJ
Now i have master Table for a device Utility. There is a attribute called "Device Type " in the table. Every Device Type has specific Device Attributes associate with it . Now attribute of Diffrent Device type are stored in Different Tables. Now when i select a particular value of Device Type ( lets say Type 1 or TYPE 2 ... ) then the table with has the attribute associated with particuter device type only has to be selected .
So how can I do this ???
How to form a realtion between the tables,... ????
Hi All,
I have to do this work in ssis.
I have to read a xml and that xml have node like this
<Attribute Name="apDlBhUtil" SF="F" Value="5"/>
<Attribute Name="apDlBhUtilThresh" SF="F" Value="2"/>
<Attribute Name="apUlBhUtil" SF="F" Value="12"/>
I have a table which contaion column name are values of name attribute. there are 50 to 60 attribute in xml.
table script is
create table Attribute
(
apDlBhUtil int,
apDlBhUtilThresh int,
apUlBhUtil int
)
now would please tell me how i can insert related value in my table.
my result would be like
apDlBhUtil apDlBhUtilThresh apUlBhUtil
5 2 12
Thanks in advance.
Manish Jain
Hi all,
I am importing SQL 2000 tables from a developer install of SQL 2000. There are no destination tables to append just new tables being brought in.
I use the All Tasks > Import (DTS) service to do this. I have noticed that the Identity columns do not maintain the Identity attributes. I have to reset them after I import new tables. Is this normal? or is there a bug here?
I checked the MS KB with no success.
Anyone have some info on this?
Thanks.
I 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.
Hi,
we have a problem with "one-to-many relations between fact table and dimension table". Take the example of table "LOGGEDFLAW" which is related one-to-many to the table "LOGGEDREASON. "LOGGEDFLAW" includes the column "FLAWKEY" and "LOGGEDREASON" includes the column "REASONKEY" and essentiallay the column "FLAWKEY" as foreign key. Now assume that we have the following records in there:
LOGGEDFLAW
1) FLAW1
2) FLAW2
LOGGEDREASON
1) REASON1,FLAW1
2) REASON2,FLAW1
3) REASON3,FLAW2
Now assume, that "LOGGEDFLAW" is the facttable and "FLAWCOUNT" is the measure with the source column "FLAWKEY" in which we want to count the number of FLAWs. As you see in the example the number of FLAWs is 1 for "FLAW1" and "FLAW2". Microsoft Analysis Server generates the value of 2 for the number of FLAWs "FLAW1" because of the one-to-many relationship to the table "LOGGEDREASON". In the attached ZIP File you find :
- a MDB File with the described example
- a screenshot from the cube constructed in AS
- a screenshot from the result table generated with AS.
The question: How is it possible to calculate the measure "FLAWCOUNT" correctly, ignoring the records generated by the one-to-many relationship?
Best regards,
Thorsten
I have picked an exmple from this forum, to help me explain my current problem...
"I'm looking for a solution to import data from a flat file into an normalized data modell. To explain it a little simpler think about to following:
The Data Souce is a CSV-File with FirstName, LastName and Category. Sample data could be
Dirk; Bauer; sailing
Peter; Bauer; fishing
Marc; Bauer; reading
In my data modell I have defined the 2 tables "Person" and "Category":
Table "Person"
----------------
[PersonID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL
[CategoryID] [int] NOT NULL
[FirstName] [nvarchar](50)
[LastName] [nvarchar](50)
Table "Category"
----------------
[CategoryID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL
[CategoryName] [nvarchar](50)
Now I like to read my first row from the source and lookup a value for the CategoryID "sailing". As my data tables are empty right now, the lookup is not able to read a value for "sailing". Now I like to insert a new row in the table "Category" for the value "sailing" and receive the new "CategoryID" to insert my values in the table "Person" INCLUDING the new "CategoryID".
I think this is a normal way of reading data from a source and performing some lookups. In my "real world" scenario I have to lookup about 20 foreign keys before I'm able to insert the row read from the flat file source.
I really can't belief that this is a "special" case and I also can't belief that there is no easy and simple way to solve this with SSIS. Ok, the solution from Thomas is working but it is a very complex solution for this small problem. So, any help would be appreciated...
Thanks,
Dirk"
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=74752&SiteID=1
Could someone help me creating the dimension table?
Thanks!!
I have a large flat file that comes to me. I first import the flat data in to a SQL table for ease of use. Then i put it into a more permanent table with the proper references to dimension tables. I want to build a dimension table out of information from my flat file. I have a dimension table with columns, [Org Client], and [Client#] where [org client] is the name of the client. Both of these columns appear in my flat file but i want to use only the client# in my permanent table. How extract distinct values of client # and [org client] into a dimension table?
My idea was to select distinct values of client# and use some type of foreach loop to go through each client# and use a query to select the TOP(1) values of [org client] where client# = x. Would this work and if so how do I go about setting this up?
I'm really hoping there is a simpler way than this. Thank you all for your time.
Hi
I am working as datawarehous architect with a large concern and i designed a datamart witha fact table surrounded by 5 dimension tables. My PM who do not know datwarehousing has abruptly changed my design and instead of 5 dimension tables has increased to 17 tables which just 1 column each in them.
This is hell of a design because if it is a single column dimension then there can not be any hierarchy in the dimension table , better will be to push this column as a fact.
What should I do now. Moreover he has asked me to not to use SSIS and code everything in stored procedure.
Please guide.
Jigjan
While populating dimsnion table the requirement is that the 1st record in all dimension should be " Not Available"
and if the fact table has a null value for that dimension it shouldbe tied to " Not Available" record in dimension
Please help hwo to do both the things.
JJ
Hi I am storing a customer code in my db that will always be 9 digits long. Sometimes the first digit is zero which gets knocked off when added in.
e.g code 050101111 is stored as 50101111
Can anyone suggest a way of formatting it so it will always be 9 digits long. A similar thing can be done in Excel, anyone have any ideas?
much appreciated
Tom
I have a table that looks like this...
City State Server Type
Chicago IL Svr1 Data
Chicago IL Svr2 Data
Chicago IL Svr3 Backup
Chicago IL Svr4 Backup
Atlanta GA Svr1 Data
Atlanta GA Svr2 Data
I already have a function to convert the server rows into a comma delimited string...
ALTER function dbo.fnGetServers (@City varchar(25), @State varchar(25), @Type varchar(25), @Tree varchar(25))
returns varchar(1000)
as
begin
declare @NewSvrCol varchar(1000)
select @NewSvrCol = ''
select @NewSvrCol = @NewSvrCol + Server + ', ' from serverops.dbo.v_userviews where city = @City and State = @State and Type = @Type and Tree = @Tree
select @NewSvrCol = left(@NewSvrCol, len(@NewSvrCol)-1)
return(@NewSvrCol)
end
Any suggestions on how to display the table in the following format?
City State DataSvrs BackupSvrs
Chicago IL Svr1,Svr2 Svr3,Svr4
Atlanta GA Svr1,Svr2 NULL
I have a table as below,
Code:
ClientId Balance '10/1/2012' '10/2/2012' '10/3/2012' '10/4/2012' '10/5/2012'
1 1000 1000 null null null null
2 2000 null 2000 null null null
3 3000 null null 3000 null null
4 4000 null null null 4000 null
5 4000 null null null 4000 null
How can I change above table into below format?
Code:
ClientId Balance '10/1/2012' '10/2/2012' '10/3/2012' '10/4/2012' '10/5/2012
1 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
2 2000 null 2000 2000 2000 2000
3 3000 null null 3000 3000 3000
4 4000 null null null 4000 4000
5 4000 null null null 4000 4000
I have a result set as follow
Jobid, ClassId, ClassValue
1 GroupName Joes Auto
1 EffDate 1/1/6
1 Userid XYZ1234
....
2 GroupName Sams Eatery
2 EffDate 2/1/6
2 UserID ABC0987
ETC...
I need
Jobid GroupName EffDate Userid
1 Joes Auto 1/1/6 xyz1234
2 Sams Eatery 2/1/6 abc0987
I can manipulate this in a pivot table for reporting however I need this to be a table for reporting by filterable searchable information. What can I do short of defining each field with case logic, or union queries.
Dear 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
Hi 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
What is the best way to parse large amounts of formatted text data
into a table so that it can be retrieved with as much formatting
retained as possible - particularly paragraphs? Will each
paragraph need to be inserted into its own row to be retrieved as a
paragraph?