combining Sat-Sun and also Fri-Sun

One of the dimensions in my cube is Weekday, with 1=Monday through 7=Sunday.

I have created named sets {1,2,3,4,5} for Mon-Fri and {6,7} for Sat and Sun. However many people also want to include Friday as the weekend, they prefer {1,2,3,4} and {5,6,7}, so I created named sets for those too.

However, I can't find any way to use these at the client level (my client is Excel Pivot tables, but I evaluated many other clients). I find named sets are only usable within SSAS's own cube browser (as a filter). Further, I can't find any way to get the cube to pre-calculate the groups. I know named sets don't get calculated, I am open to another way to get this done. I use VBA within Excel to select multiple weekdays in the PivotTable, but this causes lengthy OLAP queries each time.

If I had only one way of breaking weekday vs weekend, I would create a new table with 7 records:

1 Weekday

2 Weekday

...

6 Weekend

7 Weekend

and then create a hierarchy, the weekday/weekend level would then get pre-calculated. But since I have two possibilities, I can't do this.

I've tried all kinds of creative possibilities, does anyone have a suggestion on how to get all 11 "members" of this dimension (7 individual weekdays, plus the 4 named sets) to be pre-calculated? Thanks in advance!

Hello! The simple solution is that you use a client that will present SSAS2005 named sets, like ProClarity Professional 6.3 or Excel 2007.

Older versions of Excel do not support named sets.

If this is not possible I suggest that you add two new attributes for the two different weekday/weekend classifications.

HTH

Thomas Ivarsson

Combining record sets from two tables

Friends,
Can anyone give me the best way to solve the following challenge.
I have two tables in my MS SQLserver database. Table A has this dataset:
code_id code operations_descr
1 M Mob/Demob
2 T Transit
3 O Operation
4 S Standby
5 W WOW
6 C Crew Change
7 B Breakdown
8 R Maintenance
Table B has this dataset:
code_id operations_duration
3 125
3 10
2 1304
I want a new recordset where the sum of the operations_duration from table B
grouped on code_id is combined with the right code_id in table A, like this:
code_id code operations_descr total_operations_duration
1 M Mob/Demob 0
2 T Transit 1304
3 O Operation 135
4 S Standby 0
5 W WOW 0
6 C Crew Change 0
7 B Breakdown 0
8 R Maintenance 0
Thank you for any assistance!
/Leif S
--
Systems AnalystI've assumed that the first table is called "Operations" and that the second
one is called "OperationsDuration". Here is the query:
Select O.Code_ID, O.Code, O.Operations_Descr,
Sum(OD.Total_Operations_Duration)
From Operations O, OperationsDuration OD
Where O.Code_ID = OD.Code_ID
Group By O.Code_ID, O.Codel O.Operations_Descr
Best regards,
Sami Samir
ITWorx
"Leif S" wrote:

> Friends,
> Can anyone give me the best way to solve the following challenge.
> I have two tables in my MS SQLserver database. Table A has this dataset:
> code_id code operations_descr
> 1 M Mob/Demob
> 2 T Transit
> 3 O Operation
> 4 S Standby
> 5 W WOW
> 6 C Crew Change
> 7 B Breakdown
> 8 R Maintenance
> Table B has this dataset:
> code_id operations_duration
> 3 125
> 3 10
> 2 1304
> I want a new recordset where the sum of the operations_duration from table
B
> grouped on code_id is combined with the right code_id in table A, like thi
s:
> code_id code operations_descr total_operations_duration
> 1 M Mob/Demob 0
> 2 T Transit 1304
> 3 O Operation 135
> 4 S Standby 0
> 5 W WOW 0
> 6 C Crew Change 0
> 7 B Breakdown 0
> 8 R Maintenance 0
> Thank you for any assistance!
> /Leif S
> --
> Systems Analyst|||Hi
Select O.Code_ID, O.Code, O.Operations_Descr,
Sum(ISNULL(OD.Total_Operations_Duration,0)) as Total_Operations_Duration
From [Table A] O
LEFT JOIN [Table B] OD ON O.Code_ID = OD.Code_ID
Group By O.Code_ID, O.Codel O.Operations_Descr
John
"Leif S" wrote:

> Friends,
> Can anyone give me the best way to solve the following challenge.
> I have two tables in my MS SQLserver database. Table A has this dataset:
> code_id code operations_descr
> 1 M Mob/Demob
> 2 T Transit
> 3 O Operation
> 4 S Standby
> 5 W WOW
> 6 C Crew Change
> 7 B Breakdown
> 8 R Maintenance
> Table B has this dataset:
> code_id operations_duration
> 3 125
> 3 10
> 2 1304
> I want a new recordset where the sum of the operations_duration from table
B
> grouped on code_id is combined with the right code_id in table A, like thi
s:
> code_id code operations_descr total_operations_duration
> 1 M Mob/Demob 0
> 2 T Transit 1304
> 3 O Operation 135
> 4 S Standby 0
> 5 W WOW 0
> 6 C Crew Change 0
> 7 B Breakdown 0
> 8 R Maintenance 0
> Thank you for any assistance!
> /Leif S
> --
> Systems Analyst|||Hi John,
The code you gave me works well. But it is more to it.
The data is collected from a survey vessel working in the North Sea and the
tables contains data from daily reports sent from the vessel. Table B stores
operations duration for each day where records from a given day share the
same report_id. When I take your code and add: "Where OD.report_id =
@.reportId" and supply report_id = 2, the result set exclude code lines from
table A that are not in table B like this:
code_id code operations_descr Total_Oper
ations_Duration
2 T Transit 1304
3 O Operation 135
Your advice is appreciated!
/Leif S.
--
Systems Analyst
"John Bell" wrote:
> Hi
> Select O.Code_ID, O.Code, O.Operations_Descr,
> Sum(ISNULL(OD.Total_Operations_Duration,0)) as Total_Operations_Duration
> From [Table A] O
> LEFT JOIN [Table B] OD ON O.Code_ID = OD.Code_ID
> Group By O.Code_ID, O.Codel O.Operations_Descr
> John
> "Leif S" wrote:
>|||See if this works...
SELECT code_id, code, operations_descr,
operations_duration = (SELECT SUM(total_operations_duration)
FROM TABLEB
WHERE code_id = TABLEA.code_id
GROUP BY code_id
)
FROM TABLEA
"Leif S" <LeifS@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5E01F636-997E-47A6-A844-206B6DBBE0CA@.microsoft.com...
> Friends,
> Can anyone give me the best way to solve the following challenge.
> I have two tables in my MS SQLserver database. Table A has this dataset:
> code_id code operations_descr
> 1 M Mob/Demob
> 2 T Transit
> 3 O Operation
> 4 S Standby
> 5 W WOW
> 6 C Crew Change
> 7 B Breakdown
> 8 R Maintenance
> Table B has this dataset:
> code_id operations_duration
> 3 125
> 3 10
> 2 1304
> I want a new recordset where the sum of the operations_duration from table
> B
> grouped on code_id is combined with the right code_id in table A, like
> this:
> code_id code operations_descr total_operations_duration
> 1 M Mob/Demob 0
> 2 T Transit 1304
> 3 O Operation 135
> 4 S Standby 0
> 5 W WOW 0
> 6 C Crew Change 0
> 7 B Breakdown 0
> 8 R Maintenance 0
> Thank you for any assistance!
> /Leif S
> --
> Systems Analyst|||Hi
I am not sure where report_id comes from as it was not mentioned in the
original post. You may want to check out
http://www.aspfaq.com/etiquette.asp?id=5006 on how to post DDL and example
data.
Try:
Select O.Code_ID, O.Code, O.Operations_Descr,
Sum(ISNULL(OD.Total_Operations_Duration,0)) as Total_Operations_Duration
From [Table A] O
LEFT JOIN [Table B] OD ON O.Code_ID = OD.Code_ID AND OD.report_id = @.reporti
d
Group By O.Code_ID, O.Codel O.Operations_Descr
John
"Leif S" wrote:
> Hi John,
> The code you gave me works well. But it is more to it.
> The data is collected from a survey vessel working in the North Sea and th
e
> tables contains data from daily reports sent from the vessel. Table B stor
es
> operations duration for each day where records from a given day share the
> same report_id. When I take your code and add: "Where OD.report_id =
> @.reportId" and supply report_id = 2, the result set exclude code lines fro
m
> table A that are not in table B like this:
> code_id code operations_descr Total_Oper
ations_Duration
> 2 T Transit 1304
> 3 O Operation 135
> Your advice is appreciated!
> /Leif S.
> --
> Systems Analyst
>
> "John Bell" wrote:
>|||Thanks, John. So easy!
When I moved the report_id qualifyer away from the "Where" clause and into
the Join statement I got what I wanted.
/Leif S.
--
Systems Analyst
"John Bell" wrote:
> Hi
> I am not sure where report_id comes from as it was not mentioned in the
> original post. You may want to check out
> http://www.aspfaq.com/etiquette.asp?id=5006 on how to post DDL and example
> data.
> Try:
> Select O.Code_ID, O.Code, O.Operations_Descr,
> Sum(ISNULL(OD.Total_Operations_Duration,0)) as Total_Operations_Duration
> From [Table A] O
> LEFT JOIN [Table B] OD ON O.Code_ID = OD.Code_ID AND OD.report_id = @.repor
tid
> Group By O.Code_ID, O.Codel O.Operations_Descr
> John
> "Leif S" wrote:
>

Combine result sets

Hi,
In my project, I need to combine multiple result sets into one single result
set for further processing. However, the result sets are not having the
same table structure and therefore I can't use union. Any ideas on how I
should do it?
Thanks.Cherly
Create a temporary table , so some of the columns will contrain NULLs or
create DEFAULT constraint
"Cheryl" <justtosayhi@.excite.com> wrote in message
news:BA3FE0A3-D1C9-41C7-B10B-5DDFB0C16284@.microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> In my project, I need to combine multiple result sets into one single
> result set for further processing. However, the result sets are not
> having the same table structure and therefore I can't use union. Any
> ideas on how I should do it?
> Thanks.|||On Sep 19, 10:33 pm, "Cheryl" <justtosa...@.excite.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> In my project, I need to combine multiple result sets into one single result
> set for further processing. However, the result sets are not having the
> same table structure and therefore I can't use union. Any ideas on how I
> should do it?
> Thanks.
overall it's easier to ensure that result sets have identical
structure.
add something like this to you result sets:
CAST(NULL AS MissingColumnType) AS MissingColumnName|||How different are the recordsets ? Is it just a question of creating a
couple of columns with '' as the value, so you can
get to the point of using UNION
--
Jack Vamvas
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"Cheryl" <justtosayhi@.excite.com> wrote in message
news:BA3FE0A3-D1C9-41C7-B10B-5DDFB0C16284@.microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> In my project, I need to combine multiple result sets into one single
> result set for further processing. However, the result sets are not
> having the same table structure and therefore I can't use union. Any
> ideas on how I should do it?
> Thanks.

Column Headings in Result Sets

Does the ANSI SQL Standard specify how columns are named in result sets?

I ask this because I just came across some behavior that surprised me, or went against my expectations.

Given the table: t1 (c1 int)
and this query: select t1.c1 from t1

the results are displayed as follows on all databases I tried it on (SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, mySQL and Sybase):

c1
--
1
2
..etc

I would have expected the column heading to be different, as follows:

t1.c1
--
1
2
...etc

So, if you say 't1.c1' in the select list, you should see t1.c1 in the column heading in the result set.

Given another table, t2 (c1 int), the column headings in the result set of the query 'select t1.c1, t2.c1 from t1,t2' were the same on all database platforms:
c1 | c1
----
1 | 2
2 | 3

This strikes me as ambiguous, because how do you know which result column came from which table ? I know that you can use column aliases if you want unique names in your column headings, but is there a good reason why the column headings 't1.c1' and 't2.c1' wouldn't be used by default if you specify 't1.c1' and 't2.c1' as items in your select list?

Thanks,
Colm.... is there a good reason why the column headings 't1.c1' and 't2.c1' wouldn't be used by default if you specify 't1.c1' and 't2.c1' as items in your select list?yes -- because by the time the result set is constructed, the database has forgotten which table each column came from

:)

more accurately, a column name is an identifier, whereas "t1.c1" is a string

you could always do this, if you really need it --

select t1.c1 as "t1.c1", ...