Insert SSAS Cube records measure and dimensions to relational table

Question

Hi,
I need to retrieve one measure with a couple of its related dimensions from an ssas cube and have it stored in SQL table. How could this be done?
In order to read data from cube and insert into SQL relational table
this thread says to use openquery but states that it will only work if there are measures on the columns
and no dimensions on columns.
Is there a way to query a measure with a couple of its related dimensions
in MDX using openquery? Or any other way to query the cube to get these into SQL?
(Or should I better get the data from the base SQL tables which the cube is built from?)
Thanks for advising
Namnami

Answer 1

Hi Namnami,
Sure Darren Gosbell thread will help you, you can try below things.
You can get more info on
this link
Basically to write SQL+MDX combined we have to create link server from where we want data to combine with SQL. To create link server you need to have Admin access to the SQL Server.
IF IS_SRVROLEMEMBER ('sysadmin') = 1
print 'Current user''s login is a member of the sysadmin role'
ELSE IF IS_SRVROLEMEMBER ('sysadmin') = 0
print 'Current user''s login is NOT a member of the sysadmin role'
ELSE IF IS_SRVROLEMEMBER ('sysadmin') IS NULL
print 'ERROR: The server role specified is not valid.'
Above Query returns the whether you have admin admittance to the server or not to create Link Server.
More Details on Hybrid Query-
USE
AdventureWorksDW2008R2
GO
EXEC
sp_addlinkedserver
@server='Test',
@srvproduct='',
@provider='MSOLAP',
@datasrc='localhost',
@catalog='Adventure Works DW 2008R2'
Declare @MDXExpression as Varchar(MAX)
Select @MDXExpression =
SELECT
NON EMPTY
[Measures].[Sales Amount]
,[Measures].[Standard Product Cost]
,[Measures].[Tax Amount]
,[Measures].[Total Product Cost]
} ON 0,
NON EMPTY
[Sales Channel].[Sales Channel].[Sales Channel]
} ON 1
FROM
[Adventure Works]
Exec ('SELECT * INTO ##TestTemp FROM OpenQuery(TestTest1,''' + @MDXExpression + ''')')
SELECT
CONVERT(varchar,t."[Sales Channel].[Sales Channel].[Sales Channel].[MEMBER_CAPTION]") AS [Date],
(CONVERT(nvarchar,t."[Measures].[Sales Amount]")) AS [Sales Amount],
(CONVERT(nvarchar,t."[Measures].[Standard Product Cost]")) AS [Standard Product Cost],
(CONVERT(nvarchar,t."[Measures].[Tax Amount]")) AS [Tax Amount],
(CONVERT(nvarchar,t."[Measures].[Total Product Cost]")) AS [Total Product Cost]
from
##TestTemp t
--DRop Table ##TestTemp
Query Execution-
1-     
So above query first creates liked server with named as 'Test'.
2-     
After that MDX query executed on linked server where we have kept the MDX query in MDXExpression variable.
3-     
Using OpenQuery function data gets dump in to ##TestTemp table.
4-     
Finally we get the data from ##TestTemp table.
Thanks,
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