Hi, I need to create filter which retrieves data for current moment. [time].[date].lastchild is not an option because the calender in database is generated till following year (2008).
I guess script goes like..
[time].[date].currentmember
but it does not work.
I'm green with these MDX scripts.. I'd be very pleased if some one of you gurus could help me.
Best Regards,
Eeva
I 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.
I am pretty new to MDX and am having trouble getting what I need out of this MDX query. Some business rules:
Gross Amount applies to all clients, whether Type A or Type B. Â I always want to return Gross Amount.Some clients are Type A, some are Type B, some are both, and some are neither.There are Type A Net Amount and Type B Net Amount values for all clients, but I only want to display the Type A Net value if the client is a Type A client, only Type B if the client is a Type B, or both for both, and neither for neither. Â I would like to return blank/null, not $0.00, for those values that should not be displayed.
Here's the basic query. Â
SELECT { [Measures].[Gross Amount],
[Measures].[Type A Net Amount],
[Measures].[Type B Net Amount]
} ON COLUMNS,
NON EMPTY {[Dim Client].[Parent Client Code].[Parent Client Code] *
[Dim Client].[Child Client Code].[Child Client Code] *
[Dim Client].[Is Type A].CHILDREN *
[Dim Client].[Is Type B].CHILDREN
} ON ROWS
FROM ClientInfo
Here's the DESIRED output........
Hi all
sorry im new with using Reporting Services and even more inexperienced with using cubes.
My situation is as follows. I perform dynamic grouping (user selects the view via a parameter) Depending on the view selected, I need to change the dimension filter in the dataset.. Is this possible ?
Regards,
Neil
I have a cube that has a Dimension set up with several values some of which are bools. While Browsing in Excel or SSMS, two new values, when used as a filter shows (All) (Blank) and (True) for selections instead of (All) (True) and (False).Â
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhen 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 RelatedHello,
I am using a sqldatareader to get back a whole set of data.
The columns are id, data_id and data_desc
for example, the collection is id data_id data_desc0 100 this is name for id 00 101 this is address for id 00 102 this is gender for id 01 100 this is name for id 11 101 this is address for id 11 102 this is gender for id 12 100 this is name for id 22 101 this is address for id 22 102 this is gender for id 23 100 this is name for id 33 101 this is address for id 33 102 this is gender for id 3
I want to be able to go thru' this list and break up for each id and create a txt file. So, i will have four text files.
txt0.txt will contain100, this is name for id 0 101, this is address for id 0102, this is gender for id 0
I would like to know, how do i use a dataview to break up the sqldatareader so i can then repeat the loop for each id and generate the text file.
I don't have a problem generating the text file.
Please let me know, how should i go about it.
Thanks a bunch,-Sean
I don't know if this topic should go in this forum category or in the SQLDataSource forum.
I need to be able to provide SQL which varies based on what the user enters on a page. However, this isn't as simple a providing parameters in the SQLDataSource control because the SQL changes depending on what the user selects. For example, in a customer search page, they choose to search by either first name or last name from a drop down list and then enter the name to search for in a text box. The dataview should display the matching customers.
How can I set this SQL based on the entered values while also keeping the paging and sorting capabilities of the dataview? You don't seem to be able to set the SQL for an SQLDataSource at run time.
In the dataview rowfilter property, how can I say that I just wantTitles that start with 'A' to 'J' ??ex:dv.rowfilter = " Country = ' France ' "I wantdv.rowfilter = " Title = (from 'A' to 'J') "This doesn't work :dv.rowfilter = " Title like '[a-j]%' "Neither does :dv.rowfilter = " Title like 'a%'" AND "Title like 'b%'" AND..so onBut this does work just for the Titles starting with 'a'dv.rowfilter = " Title like 'a%' "any idea ?JMT
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am creating an ad-hoc reporting module for my website. The user may select a list of columns and specify the WHERE for the report. I build the select statement and the where statement and pass the info to a stored procedure. The stored procedure accepts 3 select parameters and a 3 wherestmt parameters. I finally got the SQLDatasource to work by setting the parameter values in the Selecting method of the SQLDatasource. Binding it to a gridview shows me all my values. Now, I am trying to programmatically call the select method of the SQLDatasource so I can get a dataview or datareader to manipulate further. I am getting an null back when I call the select method. Any ideas why? or a workaround?
<asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSource1" runat="server" ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:AssetMgmtRWConnectionString %>"SelectCommand="getAdhocRptData" SelectCommandType="StoredProcedure" DataSourceMode="DataReader">
<SelectParameters>
<asp:Parameter Name="strSelect" Type="String" />
<asp:Parameter Name="strSelect2" Type="String" />
<asp:Parameter Name="strSelect3" Type="String" />
<asp:Parameter Name="strWhere" Type="String" />
<asp:Parameter Name="strWhere2" Type="String" />
<asp:Parameter Name="strWhere3" Type="String" />
<asp:Parameter Name="bitDebug" Type="Boolean" />
</SelectParameters>
</asp:SqlDataSource>
<VB Code>Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
'Getting an error that the object is null? why is the above code not returning any data?
'Tried using a datareader and datasource.Dim rptview As IDataReader = CType(SqlDataSource1.Select(DataSourceSelectArguments.Empty), IDataReader)
If rptview.Read Then
lblMsg.Text = "Got Rows"
End If
End Sub
Protected Sub SqlDataSource1_Selecting(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.SqlDataSourceSelectingEventArgs) Handles SqlDataSource1.Selecting
'For this sp, need to set each paramater even if it is not being used. Setting it in the wizard
'does not work. Need to be set programmatically.
e.Command.Parameters("@strSelect").Value = "p.field1, p.field2 "
e.Command.Parameters("@strSelect2").Value = "s.field1, s.field2"
e.Command.Parameters("@strSelect3").Value = "a.field1, a.field2, a.field4, a.field5"
e.Command.Parameters("@strWhere").Value = "p.field3 is not null and a.field5 is null"
e.Command.Parameters("@strWhere2").Value = "'"
e.Command.Parameters("@strWhere").Value = ""
e.Command.Parameters("@bitdebug").Value = False
End Sub
thanks for any help.
Hi,
I use a filter on a dataview which has uniq rows. I need to bind several fields of the result filtered row to textboxes. Here the code :
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { string id = Request.QueryString["id"];
if (PreviousPage != null) { SqlDataSource dsPrev = (SqlDataSource)PreviousPage.FindControl("SqlDataSource1");
DataView dv = (DataView)(dsPrev.Select(DataSourceSelectArguments.Empty)); dv.RowFilter = "dr_id='" + id + "' "; dv.RowStateFilter = DataViewRowState.CurrentRows;
txtFirstName.Text = // ??? FirstName Field
txtLastName.Text= // ??? LastName Field
txtAddress.Text= // ??? Address Field } }
I don't know which cod to put in those lines.
On the help of the dataView there is an example that use DataBindings. This example is in the DataView.RowFilter article:
Text1.DataBindings.Add("Text",view,"CompanyName");
The big problem is that I don't have a method or event call 'DataBindings'. I just have 'DataBind' method or dataBinding event and they both don't support the 'Add' method.
So how can I bound those controls to my filtered Dataview field value.
Thanks,
David
Question related to Visual Basic Video Lesson 09 (Databinding.wmv) by Bob Tabor.
Made a table and a UI form according to this lesson (table colums: CustomerID, FirstName, LastName).
Is it possible to use the same or an identical looking query form to find "Bob" by typing Bob in the Fist Name textbox or "Tabor" by typing Tabor in the Last Name textbox as in FileMaker?
Thanks,
I have the following SqlDataSource in my page:<asp:SqlDataSource ID="sqlds" runat="server" ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:cs %>" SelectCommand="SELECT [Quest1], [Quest2], [Quest3], [Quest4], [Quest5] WHERE ([QuestID] = @QuestID)"> <SelectParameters> <asp:Parameter Name="QuestID" /> </SelectParameters> In my code I get the following error: "Cannot convert type 'int' to 'System.Data.DataView'", I don't understand why I am getting this error because I am casting my SqlDataSource as type DataView when passing it to my DataView type.Code: protected void Chart(string record) { System.Data.DataView dv = (System.Data.DataView)sqlds.SelectParameters.Add("QuestID", System.TypeCode.Int32, record); //Error line ... ... ...}If anyone could point me in the right direction I would be very grateful.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI need access to the underlying DataView associated with a declaratively defined SQLDataSource. Ideally, I need this access in the SQLDataSource's Selected event. I know that I can use the SQLDataSouce.Select() method to return the underlying DataView object. But, there is a GridView control bound to the datasource so I don't want to explicity call Select() since it will end up being called again implicity by the gridview itself. I have seen that this can be done with an ObjectDataSouce as follows:
void odsDataSouce_Selected(object sender, ObjectDataSourceStatusEventArgs e) { DataView oDV = (DataView)e.ReturnValue;}
Is there any way to accomplish the same thing with a SQLDataSouce? It seems hard to believe that the query results are not exposed to the Selected event.
Thanks!
(Hope this isn't a "stupid" question, but I haven't been able to find a straight-forward answer anywhere)"
I currently have code that iterates through a dataview's records, making a change to a field in some of the records. The way I have this coded, a conection has to opened & closed for each individual record that's updated:
dsrcUserIae.UpdateCommand = "UPDATE UserIAE SET blnCorrect = @blnCorrect WHERE (ID = @ID)" dsrcUserIae.UpdateParameters.Add("blnCorrect", SqlDbType.Bit) dsrcUserIae.UpdateParameters.Add("ID", SqlDbType.Int)
Dim myDataView As DataView = CType(dsrcUserIae.Select(DataSourceSelectArguments.Empty), DataView) For Each myRow As DataRowView In myDataView If myRow("FkUsersAnswerID") = myRow("AnswerID") Then intCorrect = 1 Else intCorrect = 0 End If dsrcUserIae.UpdateParameters.Item("blnCorrect").DefaultValue = intCorrect dsrcUserIae.UpdateParameters.Item("ID").DefaultValue = myRow("ID") intUpdateResult = dsrcUserIae.Update() Next
It seems like I should be able to do something like this (call update once), but I'm not sure how...
dsrcUserIae.UpdateCommand = "UPDATE UserIAE SET blnCorrect = @blnCorrect WHERE (ID = @ID)" dsrcUserIae.UpdateParameters.Add("blnCorrect", SqlDbType.Bit) dsrcUserIae.UpdateParameters.Add("ID", SqlDbType.Int)
Dim myDataView As DataView = CType(dsrcUserIae.Select(DataSourceSelectArguments.Empty), DataView) For Each myRow As DataRowView In myDataView If myRow("FkUsersAnswerID") = myRow("AnswerID") Then myRow("blnCorrect") = 1 Else myRow("blnCorrect") = False End If Next
intUpdateResult = dsrcUserIae.Update() 'Want all changed myRow("blnCorrect") to be updated to datasource
Can anybody explain how to do the bulk update? I've seen some info about AcceptChanges and Merge, but I'm not sure if they apply here, or if they more for Transactions.
Hello,
Here is my problem:
I use SQL Server 2005. I have approx. 50 tables in my database and 30 of them have a filed named "CompanyID". Example:
create table A (ID int identity, NAME varchar(100), COMPANYID int)create table A (ID int identity, REF_ID int, FIELD1 varchar(100), FIELD2 varchar(100), COMPANYID int)
Also there are nearly 200 stored procedures that read data from these tables. Example:
create procedure ABCasbegin /* some checks and expressions here ... */ select ... from A inner join B on (A.ID = B.REF_ID) where ... /* ... */end;
All my queries in the Stored procedure does not filter the tables by CompanyID, so they process the entire data.
However, now we have a requirement to separate the data for each company. That means that we have to put a filter by CompanyID to each of those 20 tables in each query where the tables appear.
Firstly, I put the CompanyID in the context so now its value is accessible through the context_info() function. Thus I do not need now to pass it as a parameter to the stored procedures.
However, I don't know what is the easiest and fastest way to filter the tables. Example:
I modified the above mentioned procedure in the following way:
create procedure ABCasbegin /* some checks and expressions here ... */
-- gets the CompanyID from the context: DECLARE @CompanyID int; SELECT @CompanyID = CONVERT(float, CONVERT(varchar(128), context_info()))
select ... from A inner join B on (A.ID = B.REF_ID) where ...
and A.COMPANYID = @CompanyID and B.COMPANYID = @CompanyID /* ... */end;
Now I have the desired filter by CompanyID. However, modifying over 200 stored procedures is rather tedious work and I don't think that this is the best approach. Is there any functionality in SQL Server that can provide the possibility to put an automatic filter to the tables.
For example: when I wrote "SELECT * FROM A", the actual statements to be executed would be "SELECT * FROM A WHERE CompanyID = CONVERT(float, CONVERT(varchar(128), context_info()))".
I was looking for something like "INSTEAD OF SELECT" triggers but I didn't manage to find any answer.
I would very grateful is someone suggests a solution for something like "global table filter" (that will help me make an easy refactoring)?
Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Beroetz
Hi all,
In my VWD 2005 Express, I created a website "AverageTCE" that had Default.aspx, Default.aspx.vb and App_Code (see the attached code) for configurating a direct SqlDataSource connection to the dbo.Table "LabData" of my SQL Server 2005 Express "SQLEXPRESS" via SqlDataSource, DataView, CType Function and the Page_Load procedure. I executed the website "AverageTCE" and I got Compilation ErrorBC30451: Name 'SqlDataSource3' is not declared:
Server Error in '/AverageTCE' Application.
Compilation Error
Description: An error occurred during the compilation of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific error details and modify your source code appropriately. Compiler Error Message: BC30451: Name 'SqlDataSource3' is not declared.Source Error:
Line 8: <DataObjectMethod(DataObjectMethodType.Select)> _
Line 9: Public Shared Function SelectedConcentration() As ConcDB
Line 10: Dim dv As DataView = CType(SqlDataSource3.Select(DataSourceSelectArguments.Empty), DataView)
Line 11: dvConcDB.RowFilter = "Concentration = '" & ddlLabData.SelectedValue & "'"
Line 12:
Source File: C:Documents and Settingse1enxshcMy DocumentsVisual Studio 2005WebSitesAverageTCEApp_CodeConcDB.vb Line: 10 //////////--Default.aspx--//////////////////////////
<%@ Page Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="Default.aspx.vb" Inherits="_Default" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
<title>SQL DataSource</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
Average TCE<br />
<asp:DropDownList ID="DropDownList1" runat="server" AutoPostBack="True" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource2"
DataTextField="SampleID" DataValueField="SampleID">
</asp:DropDownList><asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSource2" runat="server" ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:ChemDatabaseConnectionString2 %>"
SelectCommand="SELECT [SampleID] FROM [LabData]"></asp:SqlDataSource>
<br />
<br />
<asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False" DataKeyNames="SampleID"
DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1">
<Columns>
<asp:BoundField DataField="SampleID" HeaderText="SampleID" ReadOnly="True" SortExpression="SampleID" />
<asp:BoundField DataField="SampleName" HeaderText="SampleName" SortExpression="SampleName" />
<asp:BoundField DataField="AnalyteName" HeaderText="AnalyteName" SortExpression="AnalyteName" />
<asp:BoundField DataField="Concentration" HeaderText="Concentration" SortExpression="Concentration" />
</Columns>
</asp:GridView>
<asp:SqlDataSource ID="ddlLabData" runat="server" ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:ChemDatabaseConnectionString %>"
SelectCommand="SELECT * FROM [LabData] WHERE ([SampleID] = @SampleID)">
<SelectParameters>
<asp:ControlParameter ControlID="DropDownList1" DefaultValue="3" Name="SampleID"
PropertyName="SelectedValue" Type="Int32" />
</SelectParameters>
</asp:SqlDataSource>
<br />
<asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSource3" runat="server" ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:ChemDatabaseConnectionString3 %>"
SelectCommand="SELECT * FROM [LabData]"></asp:SqlDataSource>
<br />
<br />
LabData-Analyte:
<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server"></asp:TextBox><br />
<br />
LabData-Conc:
<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox2" runat="server"></asp:TextBox><br />
<br />
Average values:
<asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="lblAverageValue"></asp:Label><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
///////////--Default.aspx.vb--////////////////////////////////
Partial Class _Default
Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
End Class
////////////////--App_Code/ConcDB.vb--//////////////////////
Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic
Imports System.ComponentModel
Imports System.Data
Imports System.Data.SqlClient
Imports System.Data.SqlTypes
<DataObject(True)> Public Class ConcDB
<DataObjectMethod(DataObjectMethodType.Select)> _
Public Shared Function SelectedConcentration() As ConcDB
Dim dv As DataView = CType(SqlDataSource3.Select(DataSourceSelectArguments.Empty), DataView)
dvConcDB.RowFilter = "Concentration = '" & ddlLabData.SelectedValue & "'"
Dim dvRow As DataRowView = dvConcDB(0)
Dim ConcDB As New ConcDB
ConcDB.SelectedConcentration = CDec(0)("Concentration")
Return ConcDB
End Function
Call AverageValue (Conc1)
Public Shared Function AverageValue(ByVal Conc1 As Decimal)
Dim AverageConc As Decimal
AverageConc = (Conc1 + 22.0) / 2
Return AverageConc
End Function
End Class
**************************************************************
I have 2 questions to ask:
1) How can I fix this Compilation Error BC30451: Name 'SqlDataSource3' is not declared?
2) I just read MSDN Visual Studio 2005 Technical Article "Data Access in ASP.NET 2.0" and I saw the following thing:
Types of Data Sources:
SqlDataSouirce: The configuration of a SqlDataSoure is more complex then that of the AccessDataSource, and is intended
for enterprise applications that require the features provided by a true database management system
(DBMS).
I am using the website application in VWD 2005 Express to do the task of extracting data values from the Tables of SQL Server 2005 Express via .NET Framwork, ASP.NET 2.0 and VB 2005 programming. Can VWD 2005 Express be configured to SQL Server 2005 Express (SQLEXPESS) for the SqlDataSource connection and do the data-extraction task via DataView, CType Function and the Page-Load procedure?
Please help, respond and answer the above-mentiopned 2 questions.
Many Thanks,
Scott Chang
Howdy,
I have a table that has a group. In this group, I want to filter by 2 different expressions, concatenated with an OR. BUT I can't change the "And/Or" column value for the first entry because it is grayed out. The column will automatically change to an OR value if both my expression column fields are the same (which I don€™t want) but if I put any other value in to the expression field of the second row, the "And/Or" field of the first row automatically changes to an AND.
PLEASE! How do I get the And/Or field "ungrayed" so I can change it to what I want?
The 2 filters I and using check the UserID = to the user, and the other is checking a count to get the Top N 1. (So just showing the current user and the top producer)
Hi!
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.
Appreciate all help!
Regards,
Stian Bakke
I am trying to put the data from a field in my database into a row in a table using the SQLDataSource.Select statement. I am using the following code: FileBase.SelectCommand = "SELECT Username FROM Files WHERE Filename = '" & myFileInfo.FullName & "'" myDataRow("Username") = CType(FileBase.Select(New DataSourceSelectArguments()), String)But when I run the code, I get the following error:Server Error in '/YorZap' Application. Unable to cast object of type 'System.Data.DataView' to type 'System.String'. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast object of type 'System.Data.DataView' to type 'System.String'.Source Error: Line 54: FileBase.SelectCommand = "SELECT Username FROM Files WHERE Filename = '" & myFileInfo.FullName & "'"
Line 55: 'myDataRow("Username") = CType(FileBase.Select(New DataSourceSelectArguments).GetEnumerator.Current, String)
Line 56: myDataRow("Username") = CType(FileBase.Select(New DataSourceSelectArguments()), String)
Line 57:
Line 58: filesTable.Rows.Add(myDataRow)Source File: D:YorZapdir_list_sort.aspx Line: 56 Stack Trace: [InvalidCastException: Unable to cast object of type 'System.Data.DataView' to type 'System.String'.]
ASP.dir_list_sort_aspx.BindFileDataToGrid(String strSortField) in D:YorZapdir_list_sort.aspx:56
ASP.dir_list_sort_aspx.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) in D:YorZapdir_list_sort.aspx:7
System.Web.Util.CalliHelper.EventArgFunctionCaller(IntPtr fp, Object o, Object t, EventArgs e) +13
System.Web.Util.CalliEventHandlerDelegateProxy.Callback(Object sender, EventArgs e) +45
System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +80
System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +49
System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +3743
Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.42; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.210 Please help me!
I ask the question again more clear!
I need to have the same calculeted member for diferentes dimensions.. can i do one calculated member only, that include the diferent dimensions.
Thanks
Paul
I have table with many rows, and I want to change the structure of base. It is possible to create 3-dimensions table?
View 14 Replies View RelatedAs promised, question #2... ;)
As I mentioned in my previous post, my "real" case is a cube with 79 dimensions, most of which virtual, have been added for convenience.
Think for instance about a time dimension... Wouldn't it be nice to get a matrix with years horizontally, months vertically and displaying say the number of order you had for each cell in the resulting grid.
Ok, maybe you can do this with MDX but not in Excel, unless you create virtual dimensions for the Year and Month levels.
That's all good, but as it is, in my real case, I end up with four date dimensions for which I have to provide:
YQMD (Year, Quarter, Month & Day) hirarchized dimension
YWD (Year, Week, Day)
YQMD (Fiscal calendar)
Year
Quarter
Month
Week
Day (as 1, .. 31)
Week Day (for periodicity analysis over a week's time)
Date (as individual day - this is the backbone for the virtual dimensions)
It turns out this makes 40 dimensions by itself. For the sake of it, I grouped them by 4 hierarchies, although I've seen no specific functionality off of this in the data browser or Excel, so it really seems to be only for "show".
Now in my previous post I explained how I "spread" my session count to calculate a conversion rate. Given the number of dimensions I have (very high segmentation at the order level, very limited segmentation at the session/visit level), this means my calculated cell formula looks like this (hold your breath, it's ugly):
SubCube: {[Measures].[Session Count]}, DESCENDANTS([Business Unit].[All]), DESCENDANTS([Channel Source].[All]), DESCENDANTS([Currency].[All]), DESCENDANTS([FO Product Segment].[All]), DESCENDANTS([FO Quarter].[All]), DESCENDANTS([FO Value Segment].[All]), DESCENDANTS([Is Cancelled].[All]), DESCENDANTS([Is Customer Care].[All]), DESCENDANTS([Is Design Services].[All]), DESCENDANTS([Is Direct].[All]), DESCENDANTS([Is Estimated].[All]), DESCENDANTS([Is Holiday Order].[All]), DESCENDANTS([Is New].[All]), DESCENDANTS([Is Sales Services].[All]), DESCENDANTS([Language].[All]), DESCENDANTS([Payment].[All]), DESCENDANTS([Product Segment].[All]), DESCENDANTS([Value Segment].[All]), DESCENDANTS([FO Channel].[All]), DESCENDANTS([Reg Channel].[All]), DESCENDANTS([FCD].[Date].[All]), DESCENDANTS([FCD].[Day].[All]), DESCENDANTS([FCD].[Mth].[All]), DESCENDANTS([FCD].[Qtr].[All]), DESCENDANTS([FCD].[Wk].[All]), DESCENDANTS([FCD].[WkDay].[All]), DESCENDANTS([FCD].[Year].[All]), DESCENDANTS([FCD].[Fiscal].[All]), DESCENDANTS([FCD].[YMQD].[All]), DESCENDANTS([FCD].[YWD].[All]), DESCENDANTS([FRD].[Date].[All]), DESCENDANTS([FRD].[Day].[All]), DESCENDANTS([FRD].[Mth].[All]), DESCENDANTS([FRD].[Qtr].[All]), DESCENDANTS([FRD].[Wk].[All]), DESCENDANTS([FRD].[WkDay].[All]), DESCENDANTS([FRD].[Year].[All]), DESCENDANTS([FRD].[Fiscal].[All]), DESCENDANTS([FRD].[YQMD].[All]), DESCENDANTS([FRD].[YWD].[All]), DESCENDANTS([FSD].[Date].[All]), DESCENDANTS([FSD].[Day].[All]), DESCENDANTS([FSD].[Mth].[All]), DESCENDANTS([FSD].[Qtr].[All]), DESCENDANTS([FSD].[Wk].[All]), DESCENDANTS([FSD].[WkDay].[All]), DESCENDANTS([FSD].[Year].[All]), DESCENDANTS([FSD].[Fiscal].[All]), DESCENDANTS([FSD].[YQMD].[All]), DESCENDANTS([FSD].[YWD].[All])
Caculation Value: CalculationPassValue(([Business Unit].[All],[Channel Source].[All],[Currency].[All],[FO Product Segment].[All],[FO Quarter].[All],[FO Value Segment].[All],[Is Cancelled].[All],[Is Customer Care].[All],[Is Design Services].[All],[Is Direct].[All],[Is Estimated].[All],[Is Holiday Order].[All],[Is New].[All],[Is Sales Services].[All],[Language].[All],[Payment].[All],[Product Segment].[All],[Value Segment].[All],[FO Channel].[All],[Reg Channel].[All],[FCD].[Date].[All],[FCD].[Day].[All],[FCD].[Mth].[All],[FCD].[Qtr].[All],[FCD].[Wk].[All],[FCD].[WkDay].[All],[FCD].[Year].[All],[FCD].[Fiscal].[All],[FCD].[YMQD].[All],[FCD].[YWD].[All],[FRD].[Date].[All],[FRD].[Day].[All],[FRD].[Mth].[All],[FRD].[Qtr].[All],[FRD].[Wk].[All],[FRD].[WkDay].[All],[FRD].[Year].[All],[FRD].[Fiscal].[All],[FRD].[YQMD].[All],[FRD].[YWD].[All],[FSD].[Date].[All],[FSD].[Day].[All],[FSD].[Mth].[All],[FSD].[Qtr].[All],[FSD].[Wk].[All],[FSD].[WkDay].[All],[FSD].[Year].[All],[FSD].[Fiscal].[All],[FSD].[YQMD].[All],[FSD].[YWD].[All],[Measures].[Session Count]), 0)
If you read all this, you can see already the cryptic dimension names like "FRD", "FSD" and so forth... that's because with the real names ("First Refund Date", "First Ship Date", the query processor errored out... visibly there is a limit in the size of the formulas you can post!
Is there no other way to achieve this result? Basically I mean to say: if the session count is not defined at your level along this dimension, go to the root of the dimension to get the value there, this along a slew of dimensions, many of which are inherently dependent because of the usage of virtual dimensions (therefore if I wish to go to the root of my "First Refund Date" for instance, I wish to do so along all sub-dimensions... Heck, as far as I'm concerned this is conceptually only ONE dimension, just with various views upon it...
Using hierachies I was sort of hoping for the ability to have something like:
[FRD].[All Hierachies].[All]
Am I just asking for too much or do I just not know (quite probable) the magic keyword that can do this?
Where this is becoming quite critical is that I actually have a calculated cell that goes as follows (abridged):
SubCube: similar as before
Calculation: [Measures].[Order Count]*CalculationPassValue((...set of all un-tied dimension roots..., [Measures].[Distributed Marketing Cost])/CalculationPassValue((...set of all un-tied dimension roots..., [Measures].[Order Count])
Now the purpose of this is to distribute external costs at the order level. In short, say that you know you spent $10,000 globally promoting a specific group of websites in commission money (you pay $1 for each order). This formula allows me to get that a specific website, with 20 orders incurred an additional marketing cost of $20. That's actually the object of my next thread's question (spreading a multiplication through the aggregations)
For the purpose of this thread I am just concerned about the size of my formulas. Renaming the dimensions seemed to "buy" me some margin and I was actually quite surprised to find that the formula still fitted in, and works, but it is only a matter of time until I have to add more dimensions and the whole thing blows up in my face. Adittionally this is obviously not pleasant to look at and maintain.
Any better solution?
Thanks,
Seb
hello all,
I'm learning SSAS2005 I've installed and currently are running throught he
tutorials.
I've run into a problem where i'm able to process the cube with no errors.
i'm able to browse the cube with no probems.
however when I open a dimension and try to browse the dimension I get the
following error.
"Input String was not in a correct format"
I was able to save the project to another users machine and run without
problems. So we know it has to do with a set up on my machine.
any ideas are appreciated.
thanks
Hello,
I am trying to make a time dimension in analysis services. Is it possible to include the hours of a day in the dimension ? Is necessarily the day level the lowest of the hierarchy?
Thank you
ST
We deal with multiple vendors who provide us information via text/xml files. Vendor A may provide financial data, vendor b provides litigation data, vendor c provides ratings data. Our current structure has databases for each vendor with its own company table which basically makes all this data disconnected. Of course each vendor has its own proprietary company id to make records unique.
All of the data is based on companies so the grain of data would be at a company level. I would like to be able to link this information together by creating a dimensional model that has a single company table (DimCompany) and has facts populated based on the type of data we receive. Would this be the right sequence of events?
1. My initial load (historical) would have to look at all these data sources and create one company record in my DimCompany table. This table would then link to all other fact tables to provide a single view of company info. I would imagine this would have to be a fuzzy lookup since one company will be in all sources.
2. On subsequent loads (incremental) I would probably have to do a lookup of companies in the dimension via the proprietary code and add if the company wasn't there.
Any advice on tackling this issue would be greatly appreciated especially if SSIS was used in the process.
Hi,
I have Created Dimension Security by restricting the user to see only his information whoever login to the system by creating a new role. It is working fine by checking the cubes by changing the role through change user option but when the cube was integrate it to any Analysis services reporting tool(Excel, Proclarity) inspite of the roles mentioned it displays the records of all the user.
Can anyone please help me out in this situation???
I am new to data mining and have a question about OLAP dimensions built from models. Do you know if you can use a dimension that was created by the mining model wizard in the same cube that is being used as the source for mining model it self? I keep getting an error about a dependency loop and just want to make sure that I am not trying to do something impossible.
If this is illegal, do you know of a way of doing this without essentially having one cube dependant on another via a mining model and dimension? I tried to use the wizard to create a mining off of a table but it did not give me the option of creating a dimension from it.
how do i join a dimension on itself? i'm pretty sure this isnt really how MDX is supposed to work, but I've run into a case where i'm hoping this can be done in MDX. i'll try to simplify as much as possible. if my Customer dimension contains these attributes:
[Customer]:
- [FullName]
- [ID]
- [ParentID]
Is it possible to have a query return a customer's FullName, ID, and FullName of the ParentID.
Example with values:
FullName, ID, ParentID
Jim, 1, 1
Jane, 2, 1
A query on ID=2 getting (FullName, ID, FullName of ParentID) should return: (Jane, 2, Jim)
Thanks in advance
(This is the Twilight Zone......not so much)
What are the pros and cons to using SSAS to create time dimensions based on a date field in the fact table as opposed to a stand alone time dimension table.
I can see many problems with loading a time dimension table. The date is from the same table as most of my fact data. I have a column in my OLTP that sets last change date so I can tell if my fact data is an insert or update but it wouldn't tell me if the date column had been changed, just some column in the table. I'm going to have several thousand sales on any given day so I'll be reading a lot of rows just to put one row into the dimension.
From a SSIS point of view I'd think leaving the date in the fact table would be better.
Hi!
How do I first load data into dimension tables and then Fact?
I hope to pass a dimension such as int A[5] to a stored procedure
A[0]=10
A[1]=20
...
Can I do that in sql server 2005? if so , please give me a sample, thanks!
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.