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
I 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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Thanks
Hi, I have two tables:
1. RubricReportDetail with columns LocalPerf, Age
2. SppIndicator with columns Pct, Age
How can I populate the values of LocalPerf with Pct by matching
RubricReportDetail.Age = SppIndicator.Age ??
Please help me. Thanks in advance.
I am running a program that populates tables on my local database by querying another database.
View 2 Replies View RelatedHi all,
I have a table that looks something like this: -
county fname sport
------ ----- -----
surrey tara squash
surrey tara hockey
surrey tara tennis
kent tom tennis
kent tom football
kent tom rugby
I want to read through the sport table and create a distinct list of sports which can be used to create a new table that would look like: -
County fname squash hockey tennis football rugby
------ ----- ------ ------ ------ -------- -----
surrey tara YES YES YES
kent tom YES YES YES
I am using the following code: -
DECLARE @sql NVARCHAR(MAX)
SELECT @sql = 'create table ey_report_temp (county nvarchar(100),fname nvarchar(100), ' +
STUFF((SELECT DISTINCT ',[' + sport + '] nvarchar(100) '
FROM ey_report FOR XML PATH('')), 1, 1, '') + ')'
SELECT @sql
exec sp_executesql @sql
SELECT * from ey_report_temp
--------------------------------------------
DECLARE @county nvarchar(max)
DECLARE @fname nvarchar(max)
DECLARE @sport nvarchar(max)
DECLARE merge_cursor CURSOR FAST_FORWARD
FOR SELECT county, fname, sport from ey_report
OPEN merge_cursor
FETCH NEXT FROM merge_cursor INTO @county, @fname, @sport
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
select @sql = N'
update ey_report_temp
set ' + @sport + ' = ''YES''
where county = ''' + @county + '''
and fname = ''' + @fname + ''''
print @sql
exec sp_executesql @sql
if @@ROWCOUNT = 0
begin
select @sql = N'
insert into ey_report_temp (
county, fname, ' + @sport + '
) values ( ' + @county + ', ' + @fname + ', ' + @sport + ')'
exec sp_executesql @sql
end
FETCH NEXT FROM merge_cursor INTO @county, @fname, @sport
END
CLOSE merge_cursor
DEALLOCATE merge_cursor
select * from ey_report_temp
drop table ey_report_temp
This creates the new table fine however, when it trys to poulate I get the following EM, can anybody help? thanks in anticipation
(1 row(s) affected)
(0 row(s) affected)
update ey_report_temp
set squash = 'YES'
where county = 'surrey'
and fname = 'tara'
(0 row(s) affected)
Msg 128, Level 15, State 1, Line 4
The name "surrey" is not permitted in this context. Valid expressions are constants, constant expressions, and (in some contexts) variables. Column names are not permitted.
update ey_report_temp
set hockey = 'YES'
where county = 'surrey'
and fname = 'tara'
(0 row(s) affected)
Msg 128, Level 15, State 1, Line 4
The name "surrey" is not permitted in this context. Valid expressions are constants, constant expressions, and (in some contexts) variables. Column names are not permitted.
update ey_report_temp
set tennis = 'YES'
where county = 'surrey'
and fname = 'tara'
(0 row(s) affected)
Msg 128, Level 15, State 1, Line 4
The name "surrey" is not permitted in this context. Valid expressions are constants, constant expressions, and (in some contexts) variables. Column names are not permitted.
update ey_report_temp
set tennis = 'YES'
where county = 'kent'
and fname = 'tom'
(0 row(s) affected)
Msg 128, Level 15, State 1, Line 4
The name "kent" is not permitted in this context. Valid expressions are constants, constant expressions, and (in some contexts) variables. Column names are not permitted.
update ey_report_temp
set football = 'YES'
where county = 'kent'
and fname = 'tom'
(0 row(s) affected)
Msg 128, Level 15, State 1, Line 4
The name "kent" is not permitted in this context. Valid expressions are constants, constant expressions, and (in some contexts) variables. Column names are not permitted.
update ey_report_temp
set rugby = 'YES'
where county = 'kent'
and fname = 'tom'
(0 row(s) affected)
Msg 128, Level 15, State 1, Line 4
The name "kent" is not permitted in this context. Valid expressions are constants, constant expressions, and (in some contexts) variables. Column names are not permitted.
(0 row(s) affected)
I'm trying to do a table lookup in t-sql and runing into problems. I have two tables, City and County..
Table City:
CityID CountyID CountyName
1 3 NULL
2 2 NULL
3 1 NULL
Table County:
CountyID CountyName
1 Los Angeles
2 Contra Costs
I want to populate the NULL "CountyName" field in table City with the values from table County but I can't make it work! Any help appreciated.
Barkingdog
Hello,
Just when I thought I was starting to understand SSRS just a little and then I encounter a strange (maybe not too strange) of an issue.
I have a DataSet which runs a stored procedure and it requires 10 parameters. When I run it in the dataset portion itself it runs fine however, it will not work when I choose to Preview it. I refreshed my dataset and even rebooted my machine. Can anybody shed some light on this?
Thanks
I have a table that I would like to update with the current dateTime of Today. The Table Field is called "DateTimeStamp" with a format of SmallDateTime -- I'm using VS 2008.
When I use the following command and then cmd.ExecuteNonQuery -- the table is correclty filled in with the exception of the DateTimeStamp field. Instead of 3/23/2008, I get the value 1/1/1900 ...
SqlCommand cmd3 = new SqlCommand("UPDATE CameraPods SET CameraBlock1_ID = 98, CameraBlock2_ID = 99, Status = 1, DateTimeStamp = 3/3/2008");
any ideas?
---Jim
Is there any way i could take the first 50 results of a sql query and store them into 1 table in access and take the next 50 and store them into a second table in access? Is there any SQL statement that will direct where the output gets directed
to?
OR is there a way to have the sql reults paird up with a autonumbered ID?
Doc
Hi,
I have a flat file with columns from a geographical hierarchy such as:
Country Zone State County City Store Sub Store , etc.
The file also has data columns for months to the right of the above columns such as:
Jul Aug Sept ......... basically 25 of these columns for two years' data for one product and another set of 25 columns for another kind of product. A typical record in the file looks like:
Country Zone State County City Store Substore
USA Southeast FL Hillsborough Tampa walmart Fletcher
May04_ProdA ....Jun06_prodA May04_ProdB...Jun06ProdB
144 160 180 158
I need to upload this data into a staging table in SQL Server 2005 using SSIS, I created a table with the geographical hierarchy columns but am trying to figure out a way to load the monthly data. I can create 50 columns for the 50 months ( 25 months for each product) but that would be very crude.
Is there a better way of inserting data from this flat file into a destination table? I need all the data in the staging table in one upload.
Thanks.
I am having a torrid time trying to populate a FACT table in ORACLE.
I have so far tried two approaches -
1. Identified the change type for records - meaning I mark the record as inserts or updates based on the availability of the key in the FACT table. I used a conditional split and then used two OLE DB destination tasks to load the FACT table. But this failed as I was pretty much inserting on both the conditions (inserts and updates). So this attempt would count as a batch update process attempt.
2. Tried to also write a stored procedure in ORACLE destination database and then use that stored procedure to execute record by record using OLE DB Transformation task. But this did not fly as well due to the fact that SSIS could not understand the oracle SP and could not parse the information out.
Thank you
In my SSIS package I used the Web Service task to populate a SSIS variable with data from an XML feed. Then in the Data Flow I used a XML Source to import that data into a table on my SQL Server. When I looked at the data i noticed that the some of the fields contained CRLF pair. These CRLF pairs are being only populated by xml nodes that contain no data and are self-terminated. Below is a sample of the XML feed that is causing the problems. the DR_M_Initial and DR_Type1 nodes are populating CRLF's to the table.
Can anybody give me some insight on this problem. I am performing a workaround using the SQL REPLACE function in an Update statement to strip out ch(10) and ch(13), but this just seems a little cluegy to me.
Sample XML
---------------------------------------------------------
<?xml
version="1.0" encoding="utf-16" ?>
- <ROOT xmlns="">
<ROWRESULT>
<DR_NUMBER>1</DR_NUMBER>
<DR_L_NAME>SMITH</DR_L_NAME>
<DR_F_NAME>JOE</DR_F_NAME>
<DR_M_INITIAL />
<DR_TYPE1 />
</ROWRESULT>
</ROOT>
Thanks,
Tim Frakes
Sorry I'm pretty new to SQL so I don't know if this is a simple question. I have a table, and I am trying to add a column to the table and populate this column using what would be called an 'IF' function in Excel.
Basically 'column A' has numbers in it. I want SQL to look at 'column A' and if the first 5 digits of the number in 'column A' are 00001, then put 'description A' into new column 'column B'. If the first 5 digits of the number in 'column A' are 00002, then put 'description B' into 'column A' etc.
Any ideas?
I have a column within a table which is already truncated/deleted all records within (Microsoft SQL 2008). I have to now populate the column with sequential numbers up to 50,000 records arbitrary numbers (doesn't mater) up to 7 characters.
what SQL statement I need to write that will automatically polulate the newly empty table with A000001,A0000002,A0000003, or any form for that matter etc so that I can sort number the records within the table.
I have approximately 50000 records which I need to sequentially entered and I really dont want to number the column manually via hand editing.
I have a table of id numbers that I wish to mask. My thought was to create a new column for this new id number and populate it with a unique sequential value - start at 1 and go as high as needed. My problem is that I cannot recall how to populate that column with a number...
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm experienced using queries to extract data, but I'm new to actually creating tables, except through Access. I work with many records of data, so populating the data by hand is not an option. I created a test database (ValTest) and a test table within that database (ClaimTest). I created a text file (DataTest.txt) with the same layout as I defined for ClaimTest. I want to populate ClaimTest with the data from DataTest.txt. I was told the only way to do that using SQL Server Express was to use a utility called BCP. So I found a page on the Microsoft website talking about BCP. It gave some examples, so I opended up the Command Line window, pointed to the directory that contains the database and text file and typed "BCP ValTest.ClaimTest in DataTest.txt -T -c". I get 3 errors: Named Pipes Provider: Could not open a connection to SQL Server [2], Login timeout expired, and An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections.
I tried looking around and finding where I could change the settings, in case that was indeed the problem, but was unable to find anything. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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.
I have a combo box where users select the customer name and can eithergo to the customer's info or open a list of the customer's orders.The RowSource for the combo box was a simple pass-through query:SELECT DISTINCT [Customer ID], [Company Name], [contact name],City,Region FROM Customers ORDER BY Customers.[Company Name];This was working fine until a couple of weeks ago. Now wheneversomeone has the form open, this statement locks the entire Customerstable.I thought a pass-through query was read-only, so how does this do atable lock?I changed the code to an unbound rowsource that asks for input of thefirst few characters first, then uses this SQL statement as therowsource:SELECT [Customer ID], [Company Name], [contact name],City, Region Fromdbo_Customers WHERE [Company Name] like '" & txtInput & "*' ORDER BY[Company Name];This helps, but if someone types only one letter, it could still bepulling a few thousand records and cause a table lock.What is the best way to populate a large combo box? I have too muchdata for the ADODB recordset to use the .AddItem methodI was trying to figure out how to use an ADODB connection, so that Ican make it read-only to eliminate the locking, but I'm striking outon my own.Any ideas would be appreciated.Roy(Using Access 2003 MDB with SQL Server 2000 back end)
View 2 Replies View RelatedHi,
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.
I need to populate a queue table with an orderid, and the rest of the order in an xml auto element format going into a text field.
The data is coming from another sql server table. I was going to do this is an sp and started with below
declare @request text
set @request = (select orderid,* from neworder
For XML auto,ELEMENTS)
However it errors on the statement. I can run the select by itself fine, but need to store the output.
Any ideas
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
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
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,
Hi All,
I have a situation with a table that was created for a transactional
system with a 3 columns key. The table is similar to the following:
countrystatecitydescription
11221City A from country 1 and state 12
11321City A from country 1 and state 13
21422City B from country 2 and state 14
21522City B from country 2 and state 15
Now I'm trying to create a dts package that would allow me to build a
city dimension table with unique codes (keys) for each city. What kind of
transformation should I use to translate the old codes (based on the
country-state-city key) into the new ones and preserving the data
integrity?
Thanks,
Ignacio
I know the type of Dimension but any real time example for Dimension table
1) Conformed Dimension
2) Junk Dimension
3) Degenerated Dimension
4) Role Playing Dimension
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?