SQL Server 2012 :: Joining Dim To Fact Table Where Dim Table Key Exists In Multiple Fact Columns

Oct 26, 2015

Say you have a fact table with a few columns that all reference the same key column in a dimension table, you want to write a view to return the information for those keys?

USE MyTestDB;
GO
SET NOCOUNT ON;
IF OBJECT_ID ('dbo.FactTemp' ,'U') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE dbo.FactTemp;

[Code] ....

I'm using very small data at the moment, and the query plan and statistics don't really say which way.

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Oct 20, 2014

I have a stored procedure in that attempts to perform a WHERE NOT EXISTS check to insert new records. If the table is empty, the procedure will load the table. However, an insert does not occur when a change to one or more source fields occurs against an existing record. The following is my code:

declare
@Created_By nchar(50)
,@Created_Date datetime
,@Updated_By nchar(50)
,@Updated_Date datetime
select @Created_By = system_user

[code]....

I expected that when one of the source values of any field in the second WHERE clause changes, that the procedure would insert a new record. Why is this not happening? One other note: I am not 'allowed' to use MERGE.

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I have a simple query that joins a largeish fact table (3 million rows) to a view that returns 120 rows. The SKEY in the view is returned via a scalar function. The view returns instantly if queried on it's own however when joined to the fact table in the simple query below results in a query execution plan that runs forever. Interestingly if I change the INNER JOIN to a LEFT OUTER JOIN the query returns the matched results almost instantly.

Select
Dimension.Age_Band.[10_Year_Age_Band],
Count(*)
From
Fact.APC_Episodes
Inner Join Dimension.Age_Band ON
Fact.APC_Episodes.AGE_BAND_SKEY = Age_Band.AGE_BAND_SKEY
Group By
Dimension.Age_Band.[10_Year_Age_Band]

I know joining to a view using a column generated by a scalar function is not a good recipe for performance. I also know that I could fix this by populating a physical table with the view first as I have already tested this though I hoping not to have to go down that route.

Why a LEFT OUTER JOIN works and not an INNER JOIN or anyway I can get the query optimizer to generate an execution plan that works?

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I am working on a model where I have a sales fact table. Each fact record has four different customer fields (ship- to, sold-to, payer, and bill-to customer). I have one customer dimension table that joins to the sales fact table four times (once for each of the customer fields above).  When viewing the data in Excel, I would like to have four hierarchies (ship -to, sold-to, payer, and bill-to customer) within Customer. 

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May 22, 2008

Hi,
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(date) |
| Dimension.
|
TimeDim


Is there a way to define measure group on fact1-details-table using TimeDim. Date info is only in fact1 table and not in details table.

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Thanks,
Chandra.

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2 1 2007-12-20 French
1 2 2007-12-20 Female
2 2 2007-12-20 English


I have a dimension which is like
id name
1 Gender
2 Language

Is there a way to get measures from column 4 in fact table - so that I can give reports like how gender graph during a time period or language usage during a time period. The design will have more than 2 dimension members, so fact column can hold more data like location, etc...

Can you please suggest a way to handle such kind of fact table?

When I try to create a measure based on that column (and 'no aggregation') - I get error like - "Error 1 Errors in the metadata manager. The data type of the 'value' measure is not valid because the data type of the measure is a string type."


Thanks,
Chandra

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Greetings,

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I am developing a BI solution on SQL Server 2008 R2 and how to handle multiple referances to the same dimension from a fact table!

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Dim_Company( hundreds)
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Dim_City
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Dim_Profession
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Calendar,
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)
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We do this because we only get update for last three months data. Now I have to include this transaction table as Fact table in DW. What will be the best practice for loading the fact table by picking data form staging table. Also we have to look up with dimensions for Foreign Keys. 

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May 28, 2008

I would like to know how to use a fact table so that when I insert or update a row with a word that the table will reference the fact table to make sure that the word I'm using is correct.

for example I have a table with column Fulltext and Abbreviation
in the fulltext column I have a a word "Windows Server 2008" now in the abbreviation I would like to abbreviate this to "Win Srv 08" Now the Fact table would have to columns Fulltext and Abbreviation under Full text the full words would be in it like Windows, Server, and 2008 and under the Abbreviation column Win, srv, and 08

So I want it so that everytime the word Windows comes up and I need to type an Abbreviation for it that it will reference the fact table which is using the Abbreviation Win. To avoid different ways of abbreviating the word windows.

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May 27, 2004

Hi,

we have a problem with "one-to-many relations between fact table and dimension table". Take the example of table "LOGGEDFLAW" which is related one-to-many to the table "LOGGEDREASON. "LOGGEDFLAW" includes the column "FLAWKEY" and "LOGGEDREASON" includes the column "REASONKEY" and essentiallay the column "FLAWKEY" as foreign key. Now assume that we have the following records in there:

LOGGEDFLAW
1) FLAW1
2) FLAW2

LOGGEDREASON
1) REASON1,FLAW1
2) REASON2,FLAW1
3) REASON3,FLAW2

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- a MDB File with the described example
- a screenshot from the cube constructed in AS
- a screenshot from the result table generated with AS.

The question: How is it possible to calculate the measure "FLAWCOUNT" correctly, ignoring the records generated by the one-to-many relationship?

Best regards,
Thorsten

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I have picked an exmple from this forum, to help me explain my current problem...

"I'm looking for a solution to import data from a flat file into an normalized data modell. To explain it a little simpler think about to following:

The Data Souce is a CSV-File with FirstName, LastName and Category. Sample data could be

Dirk; Bauer; sailing
Peter; Bauer; fishing
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In my data modell I have defined the 2 tables "Person" and "Category":

Table "Person"
----------------
[PersonID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL
[CategoryID] [int] NOT NULL
[FirstName] [nvarchar](50)
[LastName] [nvarchar](50)

Table "Category"
----------------
[CategoryID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL
[CategoryName] [nvarchar](50)

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I think this is a normal way of reading data from a source and performing some lookups. In my "real world" scenario I have to lookup about 20 foreign keys before I'm able to insert the row read from the flat file source.

I really can't belief that this is a "special" case and I also can't belief that there is no easy and simple way to solve this with SSIS. Ok, the solution from Thomas is working but it is a very complex solution for this small problem. So, any help would be appreciated...

Thanks,
Dirk"



http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=74752&SiteID=1

Could someone help me creating the dimension table?

Thanks!!

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Hi,

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Hi!

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databse name: bookorder

Realtions:

customer (customerid,l_name,f_name,city, district,country)
cust_order(orderid,orderdate,customerid)
order_detail(orderid,itemno,isbn,quantity)
book(isbn,title,edition_no,price)
author(authorid,name,surname)
book_author(authorid,isbn,authorseqno)


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fact table

factsales(customerid,timeid,isbn,unit_price,discount_price,sales_quantity,sales_amount)

dimension tables

dimcustomer(customerid,l_name,f_name,city,district,country)
dimtime(timeid,orderdate,dayofweek, month, year)
dimbook(isbn,title,edition_no,price)

Now I have to populate the fact & dimension tables by writing sql scripts.
Now I have already populated the dimension tables by writing sql script,
But I have to populate the fact table taking into account, here I am facing problem in wriring sql script

(i) unit_price is taken from the book base table with reference to the isbn
(ii) sales_quantity is taken from the order_detail.quantity with reference to table cust_order(via orderid & orderdate)
(iii) discount_price is determined dependent on the quantity. if the quantity > 20 then discount 20 %(i.e discount_price = 0.8 * unit_price). if quantity < 10, no discount i.e normal price. if quantity between 10 and 20, discount 10%. Note that the quantity is determined based on each order of each customer, thus if the same book appears at multiple positions in an order, those positions shall be grouped together. This could happen because the pk of the order_detail table is order_id + item no, not order_id + isbn
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My problem is, text file contains records which will violate my primary key constraint. In that case, l would only insert the record with DEVICE_NUMER not equal to ZERO and discard and log the others.

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Hi

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Hi
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Regards
Jtamil

Table 1
RID LogTime TypeTimeID
12006-10-14 11:13:42.297Success6876
22006-10-14 11:14:00.530Error6876
32006-10-14 11:14:00.530Success6876
42006-10-14 11:14:23.670Success6876
52006-10-14 11:14:29.467Error6876
62006-10-14 11:14:50.420Error6876
72006-10-14 11:14:50.480Success6876
82006-10-14 11:25:39.950Success6876
92006-10-14 11:25:42.560Error6876
102006-10-14 11:34:58.357Error6876

Table 2
TimeID the_datethe_day
68752005-10-14 11:00:00.000Friday
68762005-10-14 12:00:00.000Friday

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Hi
I am strugglinh since last 2 days .SSIS is giving me torrid time

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[Destination Fact Table [1099]] Error: An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80040E21. An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft SQL Native Client" Hresult: 0x80040E21 Description: "Multiple-step OLE DB operation generated errors. Check each OLE DB status value, if available. No work was done.".
[Destination Fact Table [1099]] Error: The "input "OLE DB Destination Input" (1112)" failed because error code 0xC020907B occurred, and the error row disposition on "input "OLE DB Destination Input" (1112)" specifies failure on error. An error occurred on the specified object of the specified component.
[DTS.Pipeline] Error: The ProcessInput method on component "Destination Fact Table" (1099) failed with error code 0xC0209029. The identified component returned an error from the ProcessInput method. The error is specific to the component, but the error is fatal and will cause the Data Flow task to stop running.



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