Hi
I have a fact table in which i have a String column now i want to show it in the mdx queries..when i add it as a measure it shows some numerical values in the cube i cannot even add it as a member propeties due to some datwarehouse design constraints..so can anyone out there help me please....it urgent
Thankx in advance
regards
Hemant
I am building a health care application that marries transaction-level data (health care services provided) with person-level characteristics that have a time-dimension. The person-level characteristics are diseases that the person has (these disease all have a start and some have an end date). The diseases are stored in a table in which the foreign keys are a person-identifier, a time identifier (month/year) and a surrogate for the disease. Persons can have more than one disease at a time (the diseases are NOT mutually-exclusive). There are no measures in this table. The transaction table has a foreign key for person and time (month/day/year), a procedure code (the type of service rendered) and money (the cost of the services).
How do I answer the following questions:
What is the total cost of care (the sum of all service costs) last year for persons with "disease A"?
What is the total cost of care last year for persons with "disease A" AND "disease B"?
What is the total cost of care last year for persons with "disease A" OR "disease B"?
I've tried a factless fact table but can't get it to work. If anyone has the right solution and can communicate to me before I slit my wrists, I would be greatly appreciative!!!
I have a cube with 2 fact tables and I would like to create a calculated measure that uses values from both tables like:
fact1.measure1 / fact2.measure2
I can't see how to do this?
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
Hi,
I am new at SSIS and I am trying to create a Datawarehouse using SSIS. I have the data files as flat files I have the Dimensional Model ready on Paper and Now I need to use the SSIS for the ETL process.
I am trying to figure out how to make dimension tables in SSIS? I mean I want to create the 5 Dimension tables and then create a Fact table out of it but I cant understand where to start? Can any one tell me how we create Dimesion tables in SSIS. Like one of the dimesion tables I need to create uses 2 flat files and is like a flattened dimension, How would I create this in SSIS?
Even if there is any tutorial which shows this step by step do let me know. I would really appreciate any guidance on this.
Thanks,
Sarang
Hi All,
I want you an urgent respones, I want to add a column to a Dim_table and Fact_table, the Dim_table is sourcing from different database table and now the new column is going to source from another DB, thus without changing the structure of the table relationship can i add a column? To make it clear Dim_table has got Clomun1 from table1, Clomun2 from table2, Clomun3 From table3, Clomun4 From table4. Now I want Clomun5 From table5. How do i add and let it source from table5.
Thank you for your qiuck response.
Hi,
I have a situation where I have 4 tables:
1. 2 Dimensional tables(Parent), DIM1 with 50000 rows, and DIM2 with 1000 rows
2. Fact 1 with 50 columns, 25 Million rows and with FK to DIM1 and DIM2
3. Fact 2 with 40 columns, and 25 Million rows and with FK to DIM1 & DIM2 tables.
Actually the fact 1 and fact 2 have same related data but since our Analysis cube person wanted the fact table not to have more than 50 columns we divided the tables into 2, but they have the same compound key.
Above said, I have a situation where I have to select all the columns, in both fact tables, and do a group by. I wrote the query and ran "Analyze Query in the Database Engine Tuning Advisor" for it. It gave bunch of recomendations about the statistics and indexes which I created. When I executed the query the result came up in matter of seconds, which was good.
In the query I had a condition having MarketName='Bridgeview' and DateID = 344 (FK of today-1).
When I wanted the data for last 30 days I changed to DateID in ( > FK of today -32 and < FK of today), the query responded and worked fine.
But when I changed the query to get MarketName='Aurora' (other than I used when I ran Tuning Advisor), the result returned is empty set. When I removed the MarketName condition, it is supposed to return all markets' data, but it returns only Bridgeview data.
I know the data is in the table for all markets, since reports are rendered from these fact tables for all of these markets(also ran queries to check the fact table data).
I am unable to point out the reason why the query behaves like this. It responds to the date change, but not to the MarketName change.
I really appreciate if anyone can help me point out the problem.
Thanks,
Venkat
Hello,
I have the following Datawarehouse problem (SQL Server 2005 and SSIS 2005):
2 Fact tables and both with some foreign surrogate keys of dimensions (some of them with common dimensions, other with different dimensions).
I have to create another FACT table that is an aggregation and join table between the 2 ones.
How can I do?
Hi all,
i have a fact table which loads through package,when
i m trying to load this table by running the package,i m truncating the
fact table and loading the fresh data,instaed of this without
truncating the fact table i have to implement the incremental logic in
this.
For this i can use SCD or Conditional split,but problem
here is i have many source tables to load this fact table,so its
very difficult to trace the changes in different source tables.
can any one help me out in this??????
Hello Everybody,
Can anybody please let me know the procedure for loading data into Dimensions & Facts? And what is the sequence of loading?
Thanks in Advance
Rajesh
Hi there, my question is really simple. I want to setup an automatic task in SSIS that drops the tables in the target database and substitutes them with tables from the source database. We are talking about two or three dimension tables and one fact table. The dimension tables are pretty small. The fact table will contain, at maximum, 300,000 rows and 12 columns. I do not use delta or flag historisation btw. What tasks in SSIS would you suggest to use?
BTW I'm new to SSIS... ;-) Thanks in advance!
Hi ,
I have situation where I get data from SRC Flat file and have to load Dimensional table and also fact table, using same data flow(have no other choice since I have to unpivot some src data). Since I have to load both tables in same data flow, I have to have a way to put load ordering constraint (I know informatica allows that). Does any one have any idea on how this can be done in SSIS?
I would be really grateful.
Thanks
Greetings,
Iam new to SQLl2005. Iam using DTS to transfer data from my source to the warehouse. I have a couple of tables in my source whein I have to join these to tables fields and insert the same in teh warehouse fact table. I have used a Join query in my Oledb source component, What other component needs to be used to insert the data into the fact table.
I also need to extract same data with aggregation and insert the same into an another Fact table.
Kindly help.
I am modelling cube in SSAS. Cube has around 20 dimensions and 6 fact tables. Some of the dimensions are common among the fact tables. e.g. Time dimension. Fact_PNL has 3 date columns for those we have 3 role playing dimensions in the dimension usages.
Another fact table has 5 date columns for them as well we have separate role playing dimensions in dimension usage tab. We have a common dimension Company which is foreign key in all fact tables. We might need to combine the data from multiple facts to get final output.
Should i create 6 role playing dimension for each of the fact table or use the same dimension for all fact tables?
Role playing dimensions should be created when we have multiple columns pointing to the same dimension ?
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Say you have a fact table with a few columns that all reference the same key column in a dimension table, you want to write a view to return the information for those keys?
USE MyTestDB;
GO
SET NOCOUNT ON;
IF OBJECT_ID ('dbo.FactTemp' ,'U') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE dbo.FactTemp;
[Code] ....
I'm using very small data at the moment, and the query plan and statistics don't really say which way.
Is their a way to search every table in a database for a particular character string that might appear in any column in any of the tables?
For example suppose in a hypothetical situation that the character string "http://www.DrSeusOnTheLoose.com" appears randomly in a database, but we do not know which tables it occurs in and in what columns. How can we do a search to find such a character string?
As you know, this is easily accomplished in MS Windows XX or through a dos command line script. But when it comes to searching a whole database, I don't know how to do this. Can someone please help me?
Ralph
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Cheers,
AzF
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Hi there
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Thanks
I'm trying to get one cube to display two different grains of data:
1) Vehicle measures - such as total time and total miles.
2) Trip measures - such as total trip time and total trip miles.
How would I accomplish this? I assume that the measures have to be in the same fact table?
Thanks for your time!
Hi,
I am writing a BI solution for a recruitment company. In their
business, the can be n number of participants from different
dimensions linked to the same fact record. For example, a client can
be sent the CV of 50 candidates. That's my first problem. My second
problem is the variety of dimension participant types for a given fact
record. This results in the need for nullable dimension FK's - which
I'm trying to avoid. For example, consider the following two business
events. In the first one, a candidate fills a job. Easy, we have a
record in the fact table where the fact table has the following
columns: DateKey, EventType, CandidateKey, VacancyKey. No nullable
columns, great. But there are other events that I want to store in
the fact table too. Let's go back to my first example: The client is
sent CV's of 50 candidates in one transaction. So there is one client
linked to the fact, but 50 candidates. So now I need to extend the
fact table and add another column: CandidateGroupKey (which links to
and Intermediate Fact Table). But in this case there was no vacancy
involved. So do I now have to make the VacancyKey column nullable?
That doesn't seem like a good idea...
Or do I have to go for a completely different approach and have
different fact tables instead of just one?
Anyone have any suggestions?
Hi!
can any body tell me how to populate the fact table from base tables.
databse name: bookorder
Realtions:
customer (customerid,l_name,f_name,city, district,country)
cust_order(orderid,orderdate,customerid)
order_detail(orderid,itemno,isbn,quantity)
book(isbn,title,edition_no,price)
author(authorid,name,surname)
book_author(authorid,isbn,authorseqno)
Now populate the datawarehouse name: book_orderdw
having fact table & three dimension tables given below from the above bookorder database
fact table
factsales(customerid,timeid,isbn,unit_price,discount_price,sales_quantity,sales_amount)
dimension tables
dimcustomer(customerid,l_name,f_name,city,district,country)
dimtime(timeid,orderdate,dayofweek, month, year)
dimbook(isbn,title,edition_no,price)
Now I have to populate the fact & dimension tables by writing sql scripts.
Now I have already populated the dimension tables by writing sql script,
But I have to populate the fact table taking into account, here I am facing problem in wriring sql script
(i) unit_price is taken from the book base table with reference to the isbn
(ii) sales_quantity is taken from the order_detail.quantity with reference to table cust_order(via orderid & orderdate)
(iii) discount_price is determined dependent on the quantity. if the quantity > 20 then discount 20 %(i.e discount_price = 0.8 * unit_price). if quantity < 10, no discount i.e normal price. if quantity between 10 and 20, discount 10%. Note that the quantity is determined based on each order of each customer, thus if the same book appears at multiple positions in an order, those positions shall be grouped together. This could happen because the pk of the order_detail table is order_id + item no, not order_id + isbn
(iv) sales_amount is sales_quantity * discount_price
A few questions:
1) We have numerous fact tables with surrogate keys which reference just one dimensional surrogate key. How does this work?
2) Are the ‘facts’ feeding data TO the ‘dimensions’ (back end warehousing)? Or are the ‘Dimensions’ feeding facts to the ‘facts’ tables for lookups!?
Nb: Im very inexperienced at database design.
Im really also using this thread to get contacts for future harder questions!
Thanks kindly