I've created a store dimension. Within the store dimension is a CityID column that is related to a City dimension. Currently this city dimension has the following columns:
CityID (primary key --- foreign key for the StoreDim)
CityName
CountyName
StateName
CountryName
...
My SCD's source is being loaded from a query to a Zip table that contains ZipCodes along with cityID, CountyID, StateID, and CountryID that can be joined out to their respective tables to find the information needed to populate my SCD. However, cities can have several number of zipcodes and several cities in different states can have the same names. This causes a problem with eliminating duplicates for my dimension as well as finding a suitable business key.
For example, let's take a case: Washington city, District of Columbia (county), District of Columbia (state), USA (Country)
Now, this city has SEVERAL zip codes so when I create my joins:
SELECT ...
FROM Zip Z
INNER JOIN City C
ON C.CityID = Z.CityID
INNER JOIN County Cty
ON Cty.CountyID = Z.CountyID
So this returns several CityIDs for the same city... which when I try to use for my SCD causes problems because i have several business keys based off my CityIDs so my dimension loaded would look like
CityID CityDesc CountyDesc StateDesc CountryDesc
1 Washington District of Columbia District of Columbia USA
2 Washington District of Columbia District of Columbia USA
3 Washington District of Columbia District of Columbia USA
4 Washington District of Columbia District of Columbia USA
I want to have just ONE record in my dimension for this city.... How would I do this and what would I use for a business key? Also any recommendations on which of these attributes should be historical attributes? I would appreciate any input you guys have.
I read another post. I'm hoping I'm just doing something wrong, and that the SSIS team wouldn't have done this:
I read in a batch of records that should cause changes in an SCD in some cases. The table is empty originally. In the wizard, its handling changing attibutes ,fixed and historical.
3 records in ( all with the same business key) = 3 records out?
In this case, it should only produce 1 record.
Are you kidding me? There must be a way to set the batch size to 1, right?
Does anyone have a successful prescribed sequence for installing VS2005 and Business Intelligence Reports Projects on a Vista Business workstation to be used to create reports for a server?
I've looked through everything I can find here and I don't seem to see a clear solution without a lot of trial and error.
Fact is, I've not been successful getting just the reports to install on a plain XP box. Of course, the report creation looks fine on the server but I don't want to work directly on the server.
Can anyone take me through synchronization of contacts within Business Contacts Outlook into Microsoft Small Business Accounts?
I run a stand alone PC with NO network. When SBA came SQL was also installed. Apparently you can synchronise Contacts within Business Contacts with SBA but both SBA & Outlook should work through the same SQL server.
I had to do a re-install of SQL 2005 Standand Edition. I now do not have the BI, I do not know if it came with it or not. What would I need to install ifit did? I also wanted to ask: I know that MS Office Excel has the capabilites to sames as an XML file, but it is not very readable to import into the SQLdatabase. Is there a way to import the XML file into the database via one of the express editions? Thank youDee
Ok, probibly an easy question but I haven't been able to find what I am looking for.
If I have a simple class (see below), how would I make the People List avalible to build a report off of?
Thanks
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Code Snippetpublic class Person { public string FirstName { get; set;} public string LastName { get; set;} }
// and put them into a list List <Person> People = new List<Person>(); People.Add(new Person () { FirstName = "Joe", LastName = "User"}); People.Add(new Person () { FirstName = "Jane", LastName = "Smith"});
The Business Intelligence isn't showing up in the menu with ( Visual Basic, Visual C##, etc). A teckie installed the pro version and said she installed everything, can some one point me in the right direction. We purchase the media and installed from that.
Or maybe it can't find something it's looking for to make my additional symetrical with everything else. This is from one of my businesslogic files. What causes Visual Studio to not allow me to add something here and have it behave like the other parameters/ I'm talking about ShortDesc. Visual studio inserted () and the Get instead of GET like all the others. It would not allow me to capitalize the "get". There has to be a reason for this. Currently my program is adding all of the fields except the ShortDesc to the table in my database. Does anyone have any thoughts as to why this is the case?
#Region "Pvt Members" Private _ArticleID As System.Int32 Private _UserID As System.Int32 Private _WebSiteID As System.Int32 Private _ArticleTitle As System.String Private _Author As System.String Private _ShortDesc As System.String Private _ArticleText As System.String Private _AnchorText As System.String Private _ShowInDirectory As System.Boolean Private _Active As System.Boolean Private _DateAdded As System.DateTime#End Region#Region "Properties" Public Property ArticleID As System.Int32 GET Return _ArticleID End Get Set(ByVal Value As System.Int32) _ArticleID= Value End Set End Property Public Property UserID As System.Int32 GET Return _UserID End Get Set(ByVal Value As System.Int32) _UserID= Value End Set End Property Public Property WebSiteID As System.Int32 GET Return _WebSiteID End Get Set(ByVal Value As System.Int32) _WebSiteID= Value End Set End Property Public Property ArticleTitle As System.String GET Return _ArticleTitle End Get Set(ByVal Value As System.String) _ArticleTitle= Value End Set End Property Public Property Author As System.String GET Return _Author End Get Set(ByVal Value As System.String) _Author= Value End Set End Property Public Property ShortDesc() As System.String Get Return _ShortDesc End Get Set(ByVal value As System.String) End Set End Property Public Property ArticleText As System.String GET Return _ArticleText End Get Set(ByVal Value As System.String) _ArticleText= Value End Set End Property Public Property AnchorText As System.String GET Return _AnchorText End Get Set(ByVal Value As System.String) _AnchorText= Value End Set End Property Public Property ShowInDirectory As System.Boolean GET Return _ShowInDirectory End Get Set(ByVal Value As System.Boolean) _ShowInDirectory= Value End Set End Property Public Property Active As System.Boolean GET Return _Active End Get Set(ByVal Value As System.Boolean) _Active= Value End Set End Property Public Property DateAdded As System.DateTime GET Return _DateAdded End Get Set(ByVal Value As System.DateTime) _DateAdded= Value End Set End Property #End Region
I am trying to calculate business hours that an order that is open. The rules are 8am-5pm. For instance the first row, the clock would stop at 17:00, and pick up again at 8am and add on to total business hours. If the order was created after business hours, and the endstamp was before business hours, this would be 0. If created after 5pm friday, and the endstamp was before 8am monday, this would be 0. In the second set of timestamps I have here the order was recieved at 14:39 but took until the following day at 14:49 to be ordered. I imagine I have to use datepart and datediff for this, but other than that I am not sure on how to do it. Any help would really be appreciated!
I'm looking for a DATEDIFF function which will give me the BUSINESS days difference between 2 dates. e.g: datediff(day,'08/08/2007','08/14/2007) would normally result in 6 (i think), however in business days this would be 4. is there such a function? Thx
I am attempting to compute Service Levels for an interaction based upon business hours. For example, an email arrives at 4pm and is handled the following day at 10am. Call Center Hours are 8-5.
Essentially I have a number of different alternatives, and have found some potential solutions, including:
www.dbforums.com/arch/7/2003/9/914261
However, my situation has a couple of additional twists to the standard 8hrs of business M-F. The call center is open different hours depending upon the day of the week. For example, 8-5 M, 10-7 T, 8-5 W Th F, 10-2 Sat, 10-12 Sun
Additionally, I would like to remove Holiday's from the calculation for service level as well.
I have explored a number of different table DTD's, but none seem to be a perfect fit for determining the number of "open" hours between when an interaction arrived, and when it was handled.
The DTD I have for the Holiday table is as follows:
CREATE Table Holidays (HolidayDate DateTime) GO Insert Into Holidays (HolidayDate) Values ('12-25-2004')
Please let me know what you feel would be the DTD for storing the business hours and also the query for extracting the number of Open hours between two dates
Sorry, didn't quite know where this should go. I'm reading Kimball Group's "Microsoft Data Warehouse Toolkit" Has anyone got any experience in defining business processes? I'm struggling a little to look at my employer's recruitment busines and work out exactly what the real processes are. Or maybe one of you has read something somewhere about this specific skill?
------------------------ Me: What do you want to know from your data warehouse? Client: Err...Emm...Everything Me: OK, that's great. That's all I need to know. I'll see you when it's done.
SQL BI Dev Studio is installed our SQL 2005 Server, however, it also needs to be on the person who is developing reports. I've already given her access to the sql db she will be working with. Can I install just the BIDS be installed on her desktop from the SQL CD?
I have one query, i want to calculate the business working hours (like from monday to friday 9 to 5 pm and saturday 9 to 2 pm) for the given dates. And also i want to eliminate the public holidays with in the given dates.
If any one was faced the same situation plz help me.
Start with a Vista Ultimate laptop running in x64. VS 2005 loaded second in x64 mode and sql 2005 developer loaded with everything in x64 mode.
I see the x64 service running in the sql server configuration manager but I don't see business intelligence project under sql server in the start menu or as a type in VS 2005.
I have spent about half an hour looking for an answer to this, so apologies if I have missed it.
Can you get Business Intelligence Development Studio together with SQL Server 2005 both in Express editions? There was mention of an Express toolkit which includes BIDS but it seemed to imply you couldn't combine it with SQL Server Express.
If not, what is the cheapest way for an individual to get Business Intelligence Development Studio? My evaluation edition is about to run out.
I am inquiring whether I can have some business Intelligence on Relational DBMS in SQL 2005 as projecting the number of patients within a health care basing on the available data.
I downloaded Business Contact Manager. With the download an SQL server is part of the download. When I rebooted my machine. The SQL server is not connected.
It's asking for:
Server Service
How is this process completed to operate correctly?
There have been a lot of promising words around about data mining for (at least) the last decade. If one investigates how much data mining is applied in business, it can be concluded that this is rather limited. Currently I am investigating the possible causes of this limited data mining usage for my Master Thesis of Industrial Engineering and Management. This investigation includes a literature study and input a couple of experts from the data mining field.
Currently I want to check my results for two aspect with aid of other data mining practitioners:
Is my analysis of possible causes complete (iow: what is missing?)
Are the identified causes recognized confirmed or rejected by data mining practitioners? In order to proceed with my verification, I am looking for data mining practitioners, who are willing to give feedback on my work. I will send the participants a document with my findings to enable them to give their comments and other kind of feedback. (Or is it a better idea to start the discussion right here in this forum, let me know!) I think that my findings might be useful for every practitioner in the field and encourage you to participate.
Are there any people in this forum, who are willing to participate? In return you will receive my final results, which may be valuable for you as well.
Hey guys,I have to import a csv file to my database and then add some values to other fields based on these values. At present I use a store procedure that does a bulk insert and then I use an update and fetch inside the sql to perform these updates. I am not sure if this is the best way. Is this bad, since some amount of busniess logic is in the store procedure?If it is, how can I do this better?Thanks for the answer.
We have a user who uses Business Objects to run queries on the database. They are reporting that the query can lock the database up and that they were told at a conference that there is a setting which can aleviate this problem, but they are not sure if it is in SQL Server or Business Objects.
I need a function to count business days (exclude Sat, Sun) that I can call within a view. I would rather not build a "calendar table" this will be used ongoing for years into the future.
Does anyone have anything like this they could share? If there is another source you could direct me to I would appreciate that as well.
We are still using SQL2k. I've installed the clients stuff for SQL. One thing I noted is that it was all but impossible to setup an ODBC connection because the driver does not appear in the list.
Every other driver shows up and works fine but not the SQL Server driver. A week or two ago I somehow found it and was able to create a system DSN. Now, I can't find the driver to save my life. I know it is there because my system DSN still works.
I've looked all over the internet and haven't found a thing except someone else having this same issue (and of course no replies). I've tried to install MDAC 2.8 and reapply SP4 with no results. I know Vista is new and all but SQL 2k still has a huge install base so I can't imagine this should not work much less not be supported. Microsoft's own website is of little use as well.
I have tried to create a DSN as my domain user, local admin and domain admin all with the same issue.
I have stumbled upon a sql question I cannot answer. I am looking for the following SELECT sql statement:
Basically I need a way to get "5 days ago from today". BUT, the trick is that there is a table called tblnoworkday with contains weekends and holidays and those dates cannot count. So basically what I am really trying to get is "5 Business days ago from today".
So it would basically do this for an query input date of '4/9/08'. If the table is called TblNoWorkday and contains the following records:
Is there an SQL function out there, that calculate date like this
Todays Date 02/01/2006 - dd/mm/yyyy Staff working in time 9.00am Staff end of work time 17.30pm A customer log a call at 15.30 and this call should be resolved within 3 hours of recieving the call therefore the call should be resolved before or at
03/01/2006 - 10.00am
Being that End of work time - Call time = 2hrs remaining 1 hr then add 1 hr to the start of working tommorrow which is 03/01/2006 - 10.00am
I have recently started working in a SQL 2005 (Enterprise Edition) clustered environment. I neeed to start using the Business Intelligence Development Studio but it is not installed.
I have tried re-running the setup but there is no component option for BIDS. At which point during installation does it get installed or what do I need to run to install it?
And if I do run setup again will it affect other installed components?
