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Basic Design Question Currency Dimension or New Measure


Basic Design Question Currency Dimension or New Measure erdal akbulut
5/9/2006 3:38:02 PM
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Hi All,

I am in the middle of a decision and I would like to ask experts for their
ideas.

I have Sales Reporting System on MSSQL 2000 + AS + RS
So far I have used only USD as reporting currency, now I am going to add
EURO and Local Currencies. My Current Model has "Sales", "Performance%" etc
as measures and Items,Countries etc as dimensions.

The question is how should I add new currencies to the system ?

As new Measures Sales_EURO?

or

As adding them to the fact table as rows keeping only one Sales measure and
adding a Currency dimension ?

I have around 2 million record in my fact table and data is accessed via
Reporting Services reports and via an application using OWC Pivot Table.

Thanks in advance?

erdal





Re: Basic Design Question Currency Dimension or New Measure Tim Dot NoSpam
5/17/2006 1:03:58 PM
Erdal,

Check out Adventure Works Enterprise Analysis services sample. I believe it
solves your problem via a currency dimension.

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Re: Basic Design Question Currency Dimension or New Measure erdal akbulut
5/18/2006 12:00:00 AM
Tim Thanks for you reply.
Unfortunately I dont have SSAS 2005 installed, think that sample comes with
SSAS 2005. Do you know is there any documentation for that project that I
can use without installing the application itself?

erdal
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Re: Basic Design Question Currency Dimension or New Measure Tim Dot NoSpam
5/19/2006 12:00:00 AM
Not that I'm aware of. Sorry.

-Tim

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