What is the best practice for setting up audit dimensions in 2005? I know that we have the audit transform available, but should we be capturing extra information beyond this?
I had seen one of the design tip articles by kimball on what should be added, however, this article was from some time ago... (http://kimballgroup.com/html/designtipsPDF/DesignTips2001/KimballDT26AddingAnAudit.pdf)
Also, I try to capture the audit guid in the record and then, later, capture the rest of the audit information... I notice that the guid's are different between the audit transforms... is there a way to capture all of the information but not write it all out to each record? i.e. only capture the guid to the record and the rest of the information to the audit table.
I have a table which contains all the transaction details for which I am trying to create a CUBE... The explanation below in brackets is only for clarity about each field. Kindly note that I am using the following table as my fact table. Let's call it tblFact
This table contains fields like transaction date, Product (which is sold), Product Family (to which the Product Belongs), Brand (of the product), Qty sold, Unit Price (at which each unit was sold), and some other fields.
I have created a Product dimension based on tblFact. I don't know if this is a good idea or not :confused: Is it okay and am I on the right track or should I base my Product Dimension on some other table (say tblProducts and then in the Cube editor link tblProducts with tblFact based on the ProductID field? Please guide.
Now coming to my last question: Currently I am also creating my Time Dimension based on tblFact. Is this also a wrong approach? 1. Should I instead create the Time Dimension based on a different table (say tblTime) and again link up tblTime and tblFact in the Cube editor?
2. if yes, then how do I create tblTime from tblFact in a manner that it only contains all the transaction dates.
3. Assuming that I should take the tblTime approach, then should this table (tblTime) also contain the ProductID - representing the Product which was sold for each date in tblTime?
I realize that this is a lenghty post but reply and more importantly guidance from the experienced users will be greatly appreciated becuase I have recently started learning/playing around on the OLAP side of things and I know that this is the time that I get my foundations correct otherwise I'll end up getting used to some bad practice and will find it difficult to change my approach to cube designing later down the road.
So many thanks in advance and I eagerly look forward to reply from someone.
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.
I have made a server security audit and specify from database audit specification to audit "select" on a certain user and on a certain table. I logged in by this user and made the select statement..when i run this query
"select * from sys.fn_get_audit_file('d:Auditaudit1*',null,null)"
It return a value at which time the query has done
after 15 minutes i repeated the same action, i run the audit query and the same result is showed off on the panel.is it suppose to return a list of values by how many times this user has made the select statement on that table ? for example at 5:00 pm then 6:00 pm and so on
I need help...here is the problem.Last weekend, the servers in our datacenter where moved around. After thismove, and maybe coincidental, 1 server is performing very poor. Afterrunning a trace with SQL Profiler, I saw the problem which was laterconfirmed with another tool for SQL server performance monitoring. It seemsthat all connections to the SQL server (between 200 - 400) are doing a login/ logout for each command that they process. For example, the user'sconnection will login, perform a SELECT, and then logout. This is not a..NET application. The client software was not changed, it is still thesame. The vendor has said that it is not supposed to do that, it issupposed to use 1 connection that log's on in the morning and logs off atthe end of the day or whenever the user exits. 1 user may have severalconnections to the database.At times, the server is processing over 250 login / logouts (avgeraged for30 second period). Has anyone seen this problem? I have the server inAUDIT FAILUREs only. The server has become very unresponsive, things thattook 3 seconds now take over 15 seconds.Any ideas???
Need some help building a query that does the following :
I have 2 Time Dimensions ; Time (Transdate) and ClosedDate (ClosedDate)
In my report/query, if [Time].CurrentMember = [Time].[YMD].[YMD].[2006].[200610].[20061031] I want to FILTER out all ClosedDate < [ClosedDate].[YMD].[YMD].[2006].[200610].[20061031]
Both Time Dimensions are Year -> Month -> Day and have the same Members.
I have every option available, using calculated Members and/or Measures to do this.
The report I'm creating is Aging of Receivables : Balance / 30 days / 60 days / etc.. But for the Aging, I need to filter like explained above.
The following is my code. What I am trying to do is find all the students a teacher as assessed during a give time. Then find out which assessment was done the most recently. After that I will then be aggregating those results. I have never written any pl/sql or T-SQL... heck I don't even know what to call it!The first sql command is doing what I want it to. I can only assume the cursor is working correctly. Any help would be greatly appreciated.BryanALTER procedure Domain@UserID numeric,@StartDate datetime,@EndDate datetime AS-- Variable DeclerationDECLARE @SessionID varchar(1000)DECLARE @EachSessionID numeric --Cursor to find all Children that the teacher has assessed for the given timeDECLARE ChildID_cursor CURSORFORSELECT DISTINCT childID FROM capsessionWHERE userid = @UserIDAND sessiondate BETWEEN @StartDate AND @EndDate-- looping through all Children to find there most recent assessment.OPEN ChildID_cursorDECLARE @ChildID numeric FETCH NEXT FROM ChildID_cursor INTO @ChildIDWHILE (@@FETCH_STATUS <> -1)BEGIN IF (@@FETCH_STATUS <> -2) BEGIN DECLARE SessionID_cursor CURSOR FOR SELECT TOP 1 CAPSessionID FROM CapSession WHERE (ChildID = @ChildID) AND (SessionDate BETWEEN @StartDate AND @EndDate) ORDER BY SessionDate DESC END FETCH NEXT FROM ChildID_cursor INTO @ChildIDENDCLOSE ChildID_cursor OPEN SessionID_cursorFETCH NEXT FROM SessionID_cursor into @EachSessionID SET @SessionID = ''WHILE (@@FETCH_STATUS <> -1)BEGIN IF (@@FETCH_STATUS <> -2) BEGIN SET @SessionID = @SessionID + @EachSessionID+ ',' END FETCH NEXT FROM ChildID_cursor INTO @ChildIDENDCLOSE SessionID_cursorRETURN @EachSessionID
Hi, I wanna know if one has to undergo the 'sql video tutorials' on this website before trying to understand data access tutorials, again on this site. Are the two related by any chance. Also I am not able to find the customer database files he has created in tutorial # 5, dumb to ask, but what to do?,...so anyone willing to shed light!!!
as you might have seen, I'm a total newbie to this Site and M$ SQL. I browsed the forum to see if there are already matching answers to my question, with no success.
My question: As a MySQL & PHP user I ask myself if there is a possibility to use M$ SQL the way I use MySQL and PHP!? Is there a way to generate dynamic websites with M$ SQL 2000 and a webserver running PHP sources? A brief yes or no would really help me, if you have any links or resources on this topic, I'd be glad to hear about it.
I get the error "General SQL Error" when reading or writing to a memo field in Sql Server through a frontend build in Delphi 4. I'm Using the latest BDE. I have recently installed this onto a NT enviroment in the same manner as my own enviroment but get the error message above.
On my own enviroment and a friends enviroment I do not get any errors.
Can someone please give me some help on this or a direction to run in ?
Hi, folks. I've a production SQL machine with more than 20 users making transactions 24 hrs in 6 days a week. I've only Sunday for maintenance. The server has fixed 2 GB RAM allocation for SQL. Is it good to Restart SQL ( or machine) to clear the Buffer-Cache( or is it good to keep the cache) .... :rolleyes:
Maximum Number of rows allowed in sql server 2005 tables ? Maximum Number of columns allowed in sql server 2005 tables ? What are all the built in string functions can be allowed for 'TEXT' DataType in sql server 2005?
Before I go into specifics, this is my problem. I've have a tablethat gets updated with large amounts of data on a monthly basis.Sometimes (rarely) identical rows of data are on one months import thatalready exist from the previous month. I can identify these rows from acombination of two fields (sampleID and testname).My question is this. Would it be an appropriate 'fix' if I created anew 'formula' field on the table comprising of a concatentation ofthese two fields and then made that an index field (no duplicates)? Myguess would be that if we then tried to import a record with a sampleIDand testname that already existed, then the import for that recordwould simply fail.Would this work? Is there a better way? My background is more withAccess so apologies if I'm not using the right terminology.Simon Harris
hi...i would like to know best practice when assigning a value to a variableexample belowsetorselectdeclare @var1 varchar(25)set @var1='abc'select @var1='abc'to meset is implicitselect implies conditionsi see both used all over the place here at my new company....so witch is better practicetksMJ
Is comp.databases.ms-sqlserver more active thanmicrosoft.public.sqlserver.server, or is it the other way around??Which NG is better for general and 'learning SQL 2005' types ofquestions??Thank you, Tom
New to using databases that are NOT Access. New to MS SQL Server. I'dlike help understanding some concepts.Firstly, I'd like to know how to connect to a database using MS SQLServer on a remote web server using Windows XP; I know the IP and havethe username and password to connect...but what program do I use?Suggestions, appreciated.Secondly, I'd like to make changes to the remote database - anyonesuggest programs to use?Regards,OZ
I am currently upgrading my companies database from 6.5 to 2000. Including the replication. I am curious about something. Currently we are using the commands in 6.5 to do the replication instead of stored procedures. (except for one table that requires custome filters). When I reestablished replication on 2000, the default is to create stored procs on the subscribers to hande the replication. (sp_MSins_tablename). My question whether anybody knows why it defaults to using sp's? Is there a reason or is that just the way it is. I want to know if using sp's is better than just sing the commands before I change my setup.
Can someone please answer the following questions:
1) Am I correct that SSRS 2005 can access a remote data source on SQL Server 2000? (this one I'm pretty sure about). I'm also trying to determine whether I can move up to SSRS 2008 when it is released and keep running all the same report types against SQL 2000.
2) Where is the bulk of the reporting services calculations performed (e.g. NOT the database query itself)? The Reporter Server? Or the Reporter Server Database?
3) Is it advisable to have the Report Server and Report Server Database on the same server? How do people typically handle this?
4) Is it advisable to have the Report Server and the Datasource database on the same server?
I have a website. It is a SAS Site. It has a structure similar to
tbClient (ID, Username, password)
tbData (ID, ClientID, info)
tbDatax(ID, tbDataID, info)
tbDatay(ID, tbDataXID, info)
This is a reporting nightmare for me. I Ihave a sollution, but i was wondering if SRS has an out of the box sollution or if anyone knows of an out of the box sollution.
It is a reporting nightmare because clients want to be able to create reports out of the system, but I can't let them see other clients data.
My sollution is give them a username CLientA
They log into The database with CLientA login
I have views that mask the data by enforcing all of the relationships through the view.
create view vutbDatax as
Select tbDatax.*
from tbDataX
Inner Join tbData on tbData.ID = tbDataX.tbDataID
Inner Join tbClient on tbClient.ID = tbDataX.ClientID
where tbCLient.Username = User
User is a Database function that returns me the Username they logged into the database as.
Imagine doing that for 100 views. And managing the security on it. I have done it and it is in the process of testing right now but Does anyone have a better sollution.
I want to register into a table each time a user creates, modifies or deletes any object in a database. It's not possible to add a trigger to the sysobjects table. What can I do?
I enabled the C2 Audit option for my SQL server and it is working allright. i am trying to figure out how can i configure the audit to run for specific databases/tables only. I have several databases on the server but I just want to audit one table in one database for PCI compliance rules. Any recommendations?
Hi, I've got the query below which works as needed, but it performs the same inner select twice at present. What is the best way of eliminating the second evaluation of the inner select statement? SELECT TOP 1 condition FROM (SELECT condition, COUNT(condition) AS total FROM [JCM].[dbo].[jcmresults] GROUP BY condition) WHERE total = (SELECT MIN(total) FROM (SELECT condition, COUNT(condition) AS total FROM [JCM].[dbo].[jcmresults] GROUP BY condition))
I have a website that is probably going to hold a sizable amount of data. The data will be specific to groups of users based on login credentials. Would it be more efficient to create a whole new database for each group of users, or create new tables for the groups in the existing database? Any thoughts on the topic would be appreciated. Thanks
If I have a foriegn Key stored in a primary table, are triggers used to automate routines in the foreign table when ever the foreign key is changed. Is there a forum reference with practicle examples of where to use triggers?
Hello. I'm running into a rather intermittent problem when a search query is run on an ASP.Net web application. The error is 'General Network Error' Check your Network Documentation... As I said, it doesn't happen everytime which leads me to beleive that there is a problem with the database connection There's probably no more than 50-60 max users hitting the app at any one time. Anybody familiar with this?
hi guys i am developing my application on framework 1.1 on asp .net i am trying to connect to sql server 2005 but it gives me error like general network error check your network documentation.
does any one know how to solve this error then pl reply fast
I'm new to ASP2.0 development (not new to programming though) and have been grappling with general paradigm questions.
So far, I'm using a SQL database to store my applications data. On UI front, I've been using the SQLDataSource in combination with a gridview control. VS2005 thus far has been really easy to use when it comes to these controls. However, I see myself having to know knowledge of the database in UI layer which screams as a classical mistake. The right thing to do seems to be to have an intermediate layer, an object model, abstracting the database. However, if I do create an object model representing tables in my database and then expose these to the UI layer, I lose the ability to easily display data in my gridview (i will no longer be using a sqldatasource. So, after much run around my question is this, what is the preferred paradigm when programming applications for ASP.NET 2.0 and can you still use the nicities offered by VS2005?
