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  • RE: How to find schema information using XMLA in SSAS?

    This is exactly what I was looking for 😀 !

    The following statement provides all the schemas

    CALL ASSP.Discover("DISCOVER_SCHEMA_ROWSETS");

    And if any of the schemas is executed then I get schema details

    CALL ASSP.Discover("MDSCHEMA_HIERARCHIES");

    Thanks...

    Regards - JL

  • RE: Error while creating clustered index view

    Well, I went through MSDN Q. & A. on creating indexed views and found the solution... There are two ways to handle this

    1. If you want to apply index on...

    Regards - JL

  • RE: Updating more than one rows at a time

    You can have functioin by passing the EmployeeId and get the required data.

    The join provided above is called bulk update where multiple records can be updated as single statement. The...

    Regards - JL

  • RE: What is purpose of surrogate key?

    But I think you will have to include all the columns in join with source to create surrogate key.

    So in relational DB PK will not define uniqueness of the data;...

    Regards - JL

  • RE: What is purpose of surrogate key?

    In this particular example SSN can be treated as unique number so there is no need to join on all 5 columns. If you want to transfer this data to...

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  • RE: Desiging dimension tables

    You can basically create one table defining surrogate key. For example if you have tables like

    Region

    (idRegion

    RegionName

    )

    and

    Country

    (idCountry

    idRegion

    CountryName)

    if your composite key in Country is idRegion and CountryName then you can create a...

    Regards - JL

  • RE: Will index sequence help in sequence of WHERE caluse?

    So does it mean, the index sequence can be decided on any order? Or is there any logic to decide the index ordering?

    Will Index (FirstName, LastName) be exactly same as...

    Regards - JL

  • RE: Do I need primary ID in fact table?

    I went through a lot of topics by Ralph Kimball and found that primary key is not used in fact table. This is because the fact key will not be...

    Regards - JL

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