How to add alias column by generation? (Essbase integrated into OBIEE11g)

Question

Hi all,
I implemented both English and Chinese for alias in Essbase. Now, I have imported the essbase cube into RPD. And, I would like to create alias columns for each dimension. I followed the steps in this website "http://www.rittmanmead.com/2010/07/obiee-11gr1-enhancements-to-essbase-support/". However, the alias columns can only be found in Business Model and Mapping layer, but these columns cannot be found in Physical layer. Moreover, there is only ONE alias column is generated for each dimension. Even if a dimension has several generations, there is only ONE alias column is generated. However can I create alias columns for dimension by generation concept?

Answer 1

Hi Lcerni,
To Extract Data from sql database and insert the extracted data to datatable, please go through this article:
Use PowerShell to Collect Server Data and Write to SQL
A common task for a database professional is collecting and loading data from multiple servers into central utility database. Using the invoke-sqlcmd2 function, we can extract data from a SQL Server data source, but to load data we have to introduce a new
function called Write-DataTable. The
Write-DataTable Windows PowerShell function can be found in the Scripting Guys Script Repository.
The Write-DataTable function uses the .NET
Data.SqlClient.SqlBulkCopy class to load an in-memory DataTable or
DataRow array into a SQL Server table.
$dt = invoke-sqlcmd2 -ServerInstance "Z003\R2" -Database "master" -InputFile ./get-dbspace.sql -As 'DataTable'
#To load the DataTable into our SQL Server table we'll call the Write-DataTable function:
Write-DataTable -ServerInstance "Z003\R2" -Database "dbutility" -TableName "db_space" -Data $dt
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