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all groups > sql server data warehouse > march 2006

MDX Query - Help needed from experienced
Posted by saiser at 3/28/2006 9:24:16 PM
Ingen ===== GA - Georgia --County1 --- SharedFlag --County2 --- SharedFlag NC - North Carolina --County1 --- SharedFlag --County2 --- SharedFlag MD - Maryland --County1 --- SharedFlag --County2 --- SharedFlag Query 1: Select Non Empty [InGen].[State Name].Members on...more >>

Are there any Datawarehousing webcasts from microsoft ?
Posted by Rose101 at 3/28/2006 8:33:10 PM

database design: primary keys
Posted by Bill H at 3/28/2006 2:17:40 AM
Is it recommended to keep primary keys limited to a single field? I have an account_id in all tables, and I wanted to make the rec_id in all tables unique within an account_id, so the primary key would be based on account_id + rec_id. I like the idea of each Account starting at 1 for their...more >>

MS SQL Sever 7 to SQL Server 2005 Migration
Posted by lonskie1030 at 3/27/2006 5:11:02 PM
Hi, I would like to ask, is there any way i could migrate data on my SQL Server 7 to SQL Server 2005? Is there any available white paper or article regarding this? Kindly refer one to me. Thanks in advance. ...more >>

Indexes vs Statistics
Posted by Magnus Österberg at 3/26/2006 7:31:11 PM
Hi! A beginner's question...I would look up the answer myself if I had the time, I'm in a bit of a hurryy... Indexes vs Statistics: Does running sp_updatestats mean that all indexes in my database is updated? If no, then how do I do in order to update the indexes? I know CREATE INDEX ...more >>

Product Dimension
Posted by Statsman at 3/24/2006 2:16:57 AM
I have a parent-child product dimension. It is parent-child because it is unbalanced - some products have more levels than others. This dimension has the product members for the entire Group. However, because different products have different relevant dimensions I have a number of cubes - i.e. ...more >>

Storing attendace - design question
Posted by Henrik at 3/16/2006 1:08:22 PM
I'm new to database design and I have a design question that I hope I can get some ffedback on. I want to setup a table structure to accomplish the following scenario: The goal is to create a tracking system for tracking attendance in meetings for members of a project group. I want the proj...more >>

Course for Designing and Populating a Data Warehouse?
Posted by jwgoerlich NO[at]SPAM gmail.com at 3/16/2006 4:34:33 AM
Hello, A while back, I took Microsoft Course 2092A: Designing and Populating a Data Warehouse with Microsoft SQL Server 2000. I have been reading about SQL Server 2005 and see that it has several new data warehousing tools. I want to learn more. Is there a course for building data warehouses ...more >>



Problems loading data from Oracle
Posted by Rafa® at 3/15/2006 5:02:27 AM
I'm having a bad time with Oracle and Analysis Services 2005. We are migrating a Cube from AS2000 wich uses Oracle as Data Source. The installation is clean. The machine haves only SQL Server 2005 installed, with instances for Database Engine and Analysis Services, and client tools (to deve...more >>

general question about handling times and calendars
Posted by Immy at 3/10/2006 4:53:50 PM
Hi all, Looking for some suggestions to implement time and calendar data within a DWH. I've done a fair bit of investigating best practices for implementing time as a dimension within a DWH, but none of them talk about breaking time down by calendar types and i'm wondering if there is a ...more >>

error migrating olap db from analysis server (SQL Server 2000)
Posted by octoni at 3/7/2006 10:10:27 PM
Hi there, I try to migrate olap db to Analysis Services 2005, and error shows : Error Messages 6164 Errors in the OLAP storage engine: The attribute key cannot be found: Table: dbo_Dim_Proper, Column: Kode_x0020_Proper, Value: 1632001. Errors in the OLAP storage engine: The record was s...more >>

SABII on SQL2000 / Time dim problems
Posted by Antonio Ramos at 3/7/2006 11:46:52 AM
I have SABII on SQL2000. When we fisrt configure using the excel spreadsheet we generated the time dimension until 12/31/2005 so we have no more time data after that date. We have no idea on how to populate the time dimesion for marketing, fiscal and standard. Can anyone help? ...more >>

error: CoCreate of DSO for BULKIMPORTSTREAM
Posted by Chris Trailer at 3/7/2006 11:14:30 AM
Hi, Sql 2000 SP3a, Windows 2000 Enterprise, SP4 I've extensively searched through most means (google, microsoft, newsgroups,etc) and really haven't found a definitive answer. There really isn't any real answers. I run an ASP and most clients on one of the production servers are experie...more >>

using Max on analysis manager
Posted by Roy Goldhammer at 3/6/2006 4:20:34 PM
Hello there I would like to use the max function on cacluated Member. IS there way to do this? ...more >>

DTS Network Traffic
Posted by i-DLT at 3/6/2006 9:37:28 AM
Hi, I am trying to confirm a hypothesis on the Network traffic that a certain DTS will generate, my environment is configured as follows: Server A: SQL Server Instance to act as source Server B: SQL Server Instance to execute DTS Package Server C: File Server at remote location to be tar...more >>

Foreign Keys in Fact Table - performance help
Posted by Ray at 3/2/2006 3:16:21 PM
We are still fairly new to data-warehousing. We have a fact table that has a fk to the dimension table... and the lookup translation is too SLOW... We are currently using t-sql and stored procedures for our ETL work. We open a cursor to read the source (stage table) and do basic insert operat...more >>

Calculated Member
Posted by Bill Walo at 3/2/2006 12:31:26 PM
Hello All. I am using AS 2000 and would like to create a calculated member that shows a calculated value back to a particular month regardless of year. Here is an example. I am looking at data for the month of July, 2005 and I want my calculated member to show a calculated value for the...more >>


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