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Modelling snowflake type schema as referenced dimension and unknown members

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Hi All

I have a snowflake schema that has the following tables:

1. FactTransaction

2. DimSecurity

3. DimSecurityGrouping

DimSecurity.id joins directly to FactTransaction.securityid. The DimSecurityGrouping table is used to model security groupings for reporting purposes. Multiple groupings can be defined for the same security. The layout of the table us such GroupName, Level1Name, Level2Name, SecurityNumber. DimSecurityGrouping.securitynumber join to DimSecurity.securitynumber (natural keys). Not every entry in DimSecurity has a defined grouping.

In BIDS I have setup a referenced relationship between DimSecurityGrouping and DimSecurity. When I process the cube I get errors saying "the attribute key cannot be found..." for records in DimSecurity without matching records in DimSecurityGrouping.

How can I ignore just these errors for just this scenario and not all errors on the cube when processing, or is there a better alternative?

Cheers

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The number of members in the conceptual type 'TrainingModel.Users' does not match with the number of members on the object side type 'TrainingModel.Users'. Make sure the number of members are the same.

This happens at the following line in global.asax:

model.RegisterContext(typeof(TrainingModel.TrainingEntities), new ContextConfiguration() { ScaffoldAllTables = true });

Please help!

Thanks

The type 'System.Data.Linq.DataContext' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced. You must

Hi,

This is frustrating, and I don't know how to solve it.

I have a strange problem. I am adding a LinqDatasource object, and set the context:

        protected void LinqDataSource_ContextCreating(object sender, LinqDataSourceContextEventArgs e)
        {
            e.ObjectInstance = new KaruselaDataContext(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["ConnectionString"].ConnectionString);
        }

Then I get this error:
The type 'System.Data.Linq.DataContext' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced. You must add a reference to assembly 'System.Data.Linq, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'.

On web.config I already have this:
<add assembly="System.Data.Linq, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089"/>

NOTE: The datacontext is in a different project (DLL proect) where I added a refernce to System.Data.Linq.

is there another way adding a refernce to a web project? or only though teh web.config?

Thanks.

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Problem with Dimension of type Account

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In SSIS 2005 how can I implement Slowly Changing Dimension Type 6

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We're porting a solution from 2007 to 2010 and we're having trouble accessing the CrawledProperties property from the Schema object. Other properties from the Schema object however are accessible (e.g. AllManagedProperties). It does not matter whether we use the obsolete SearchContext to create the Schema object, or the new SearchServiceApplication (Example code from Steve Curran here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010programming/thread/2550e6e8-34a6-4012-969f-9657dc526d74) Now what's interesting is that the SAME user (Farm administrator) can access the AllCategories using a Windows Forms application, but when using a SharePoint solution (Codebehind on an application page) it doesn't work. We have double-checked that the executing user is the same. The same user can also browse the CrawledProperties using the Central Admin UI. We're experiencing this on several server installations, one of which is the "Standalone" installation of Search Server Express 2010, whereas the same user was used to perform the installation. I'd appreciate any ideas you might have.

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Hi there,

Any solution with SSAS 2008 R2 for that problem?

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlanalysisservices/thread/ef9e51ea-0ccc-46b1-b789-38e39f961287

"It looks very simple, but I cannot find how to order the list of attributes in a dimension. Let's say I have a dimension Item with two attributes:

Item
- Code
- Description

and I want the Description to appear first. By default it's using the alphabetical ordering but can I change that ?"

It works fine with measures. In BIDS, CubeDesigner, there is are up und down buttons in order to move measures up or down. In the attribute pane, these buttons are inactive.

any help?

Peter

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Hello,

I am trying to host a WF4 (RC) Service dynamically. I have a test solution with two projects. The first is a declarative workflow service library with one root Flowchart activity in it, and a simple custom code activity. The workflow service library does not depend on any other custom assemblies or references. The second is my host app, which in my test solution is just a console application.

In my host app, I am attempting to the use ActivityXamlServices to load the Xaml for the workflow service into an activity, and then use the WorkflowServiceHost to fire up a workflow instance using that activity.

As soon as I try to new up the WorkflowServiceHost object, I get this exception...

Cannot create unknown type '{clr-namespace:DeclarativeServiceLibrary1}CodeActivity1'.

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Hello,

The issue looks pretty simple yet I got stuck. I want to define the measure [NR Var] as [NR]-[F NR] for years/months/dates before 2009 and [NR]-[FI NR] for 2009 and on. I am using [Year]-[Month]-[Date] hierarchies in the cube. I have defined scope:

Scope ([Measures].[NR Var], {
descendants([Date].[Year - Month - Date].[Year].&[2004], 2, self_before_after),
descendants([Date].[Year - Month - Date].[Year].&[2005], 2, self_before_after),
descendants([Date].[Year - Month - Date].[Year].&[2006], 2, self_before_after),
descendants([Date].[Year - Month - Date].[Year].&[2007], 2, self_before_after),
descendants([Date].[Year - Month - Date].[Year].&[2008], 2, self_before_after)});
this=[NR]-[F NR];
End Scope;

but it does not work for some reason. If I get rid of DESCENDANTS function, it works but applies the scope only to the YEAR level. Another problem with using SCOPE is that it affects [NR Var] only yet I have other calcs derivative of [NR Var] which I want the scope to affect as well.

So I ideally I would like to have something like:

CREATE MEMBER CURRENTCUBE.[Measures].[NR Var] as

case when {
descendants([Date].[Year - Month - Date].[Year].&[2004], 2, self_before_after),
descendants([Date].[Year - Month - Date].[Year].&[2005], 2, self_befor

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Hi all,

I have created a time calculation dimension (based on David ) with calculated members. When I work in Management Studio, I can select the dimension called [Date Calculations] and use it in the query. The only thing is, I don't need everytime all the available calculations, so I want to restrict them by selecting a few.

This is what I have done in the query below, but when I want to run this query I get an error:

TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services
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A set has been encountered that cannot contain calculated members.

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BUTTONS:

OK
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Query:

SELECT 
 NON EMPTY { [Measures].[Stock Value], 
       [Measures].[Stockquantity], 
       [Measures].[Nr of products] } ON COLUMNS, 
 NON EMPTY { ([Date].[Year - Month - Date].[Day].ALLMEMBERS * 
        [Date Calculations].[Date Calculations].[Date Calculations].ALLMEMBERS ) } DIMENSION PROPERTIES MEMBER_CAPTION, MEMBER_UNIQUE_NAME ON ROWS
FROM

Select other dimension members automatically

All,

I'm trying to figure out if something is possible. Assume a simple fact table of sales $ and 2 dimensions, customers and products.

The requirement is, when a customer is selected in the customer dimension and a product is selected in the product dimension, any other customers that have sales for that product would also be selected. So if I select John Smith and product 1234, anyone else that has purchased 1234 will also be selected in the customer dimension. Is this possible? I don't know a ton about mdx, I thought it was only for queries, but are there say an event I can capture when the user clicks on a customer and run some mdx to select other customers that have also purchased that product? Or some other way if possible.

Thanks in advance.

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Was wondering if there was any workaround in Excel 2010 to make these appear. My understanding is that the behaviour is unchanged from 2007.

Does anyone know of any plans to support calculated members on dimensions in Excel?

Cheers


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