modelling SCD2 hierarchy changes in analysis services 2005

In SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services you'll find new algorithms, enhancements to existing algorithms, and more than a dozen added visualizations to help you get a handle on your data relationships. Plus, enhancements to the Data Mining Extensions to SQL along with OLAP, DTS, and Reporting Services integration make it possible to create a new breed of intelligent apps with embedded data mining technology. Here the author explains it all.

Jamie MacLennan

MSDN Magazine September 2004

Hello,

I need to migrate my SQL Server and Analysis Services cluster from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008, I have found an article for SQL ID (953200), but I cannot find anything for Analysis Services, does such a guide exist?

Regards

Paul

Hi Guys,

I have some problem here..

I'm using SQL Server Analysis Services 2005.. I want to attach/detach my analysis database, but i cannot find any option there..

does anybody have the script to attach the database?

Many thanks and regards...

Roland Andreas

Hi everyone,

I'm also reading this book, and do not have the companion cd. If someone could e-mail it to me at: sibasishdasgupta@gmail.com i would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance.

HI All

I have 3 dimensions in our Data Warehouse, dimCampaign, dimCampaignList and dimCampaignTarget
Think of dimCampaign as a marketing campaign, that contains one or more Campaign Lists (offers) for which many customers (dimCampaignTargets) receive.  The are foreign key relationships between these 3 tables, and it is the dimCampaignTarget ids that are written to associated fact tables

I have created a single dimension in Analysis Services 2008 that contains these 3 tables and their respective relationships were set up in the DSV so that I could do this.  Rather than use the 'referenced' dimension method, I wanted a 'single' dimension containing the 3 tables and their snowflake relationships in order that I can create a hierarchy that contains attributes from differing tables (namely the Campaign Description from dimCampaign, and Campaign List Description from dimCampaignList). 

My hierarchy has those 2 levels, top level is Campaign (description), and the 2nd level is Campaign List (description).  The Campaign Targets are not shown in the hierarchy, their attribute is only used in the dimension as the join to most of the fact tables.

Problem is when I set up my hierarchy, I go to change the Key Columns property of the Campaign List attribute to make it a collection of keys (Campaign and Campaign List) as I did in

I've been working on my first asp.net application and for the most part it's been pretty smooth.  Right now I'm having trouble getting reporting services working under SQL Server 2005.  I developed the site with Visual Studio 2010 and didn't think about any of the .Net 4.0 compatibility issues that have arisen.  I'm having no problems with the site communicating with SQL Server 2005 for the regular database stuff.  The only problem I'm having is with setting up Reporting Services.  I have the .Net 4.0 framework installed on the server, however Reporting Services is still using 2.x.  I'm not sure if this is a problem with SSRS or with IIS.  When i go to localhost/Reports it's reading my web.config for my application and throwing an error: "Parser Error Message: Unrecognized attribute 'targetFramework'."  This is referring to a line in my web.config where targetFramework is set to 4.0.

Software that I'm using:

• Visual Studio 2010
• SQL Server 2005 Standard
• IIS 7.0
• .Net 4.0

Any suggestions?  

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