Apllication optimization

Question

Hi all,
I am trying to Optimize the Application , but it is giving the following error:
- Errors in the OLAP storage engine: The attribute key cannot be found: Table: dbo_tblFactLegalApp, Column: ACCTDETAIL, Value: .
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: The process operation ended because the number of errors encountered during processing reached the defined limit of allowable errors for the operation.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while processing the 'LegalApp' partition of the 'LegalApp' measure group for the 'LegalApp' cube from the MEDEVELOP database.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: The process operation ended because the number of errors encountered during processing reached the defined limit of allowable errors for the operation.
Internal error: The operation terminated unsuccessfully.

Answer 1

Fiona's definitely got the right diagnosis. You must remove the invalid records from the fact table.
The frustrating thing with this error message, sometimes, is that it only tells you the first member of the dimension that is invalid. If you fix this one, and then re-process, you may get a second member. And then a third... and a fourth.
Try this query in SQL mgmt studio, to identify all the invalid acctDetail members:
select distinct acctDetail
from tblFactLegalApp
except
select ID from mbrAcctDetail where calc = 'N'
select distinct acctDetail
from tblFac2LegalApp
except
select ID from mbrAcctDetail where calc = 'N'
select distinct acctDetail
from tblFactWBLegalApp
except
select ID from mbrAcctDetail where calc = 'N'
That tells you the complete magnitude of the problem, but not what caused it. Normally I find the cause to be script logic that uses a member property in the *REC statement; there's no validation available to ensure that the property value is a valid base-level member of the appropriate dimension. Or it could be a business rule set up with a DIMLIST property, etc.
After you identify the root cause, you can then also decide how to fix the corrupt data. Easiest & safest is to delete these records, and then re-run the logic that caused the problem initially. But sometimes that means you'll lose data. If that's the case, then you can update tblFactLegalApp where acctDetail = 'whatever' set acctDetail = 'somethingBetter'