Prompt when processing a dimension

Hi,
When i am processing the account dimension i am getting a prompt Stating the the file name already exists in the location do i want to replace it.
This only comes up on one machine is there a way to stop this prompt from coming up.
Many thanks

Hi
We also have this problem.
We have a TS setup and i have narrowed it down to the fact that if more than one user is processing or using the Dimension file in their user sessions the error comes up.
Hope this helps.

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Thanks for your answer but unfortunately, that's not exactly what I'm looking for.
I mean, I want to create a dimension based on table dimDocumentVente in which I want to include the information "code" coming from dimGroupeComptaProduitTVA table.
Please see below.
As you may notice, I have several foreign keys.
When I process the dimension, I see in SQL profiler that SQLServer is using the relation between dimDocumentVente and dimArticle plus between dimArticle and dimGroupeComptaProduitTVA to process my dimension. It's necessary for me that instead, it uses directly the
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Getting error when processing dimension

Hi All,
I am working on BPC5.1.when iam processing the dimension iam getting the error.
in OPTIMIZE SCHEMA---Skip optimize schema step,
in UPDATE OLAP----
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this are the errors iam getting.can some body help me in solving these issues..
All the best.
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According to them there was a corruption on a speciffic OLAP file. By deleting it, they allowed it to be recreated on the next application processing. The file in question was found in \Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.2\OLAP\Data\UGF.0.db\<APPLICATION>.38.cub.xml
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Its called MDXLib.lgl not MDX.lgl
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A duplicate attribute key has been found when processing

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When I process one of my dimensions it fails and I get the following error:
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SEAN FOLEY
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Hi all,
I got an error “Errors in the OLAP storage engine: A duplicate attribute key has been found when processing: Table…” when built new cube. It looks strange in my case. I created a small example to re-produce this error as below:
I create a data source table as below
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Errors in the OLAP storage engine: The attribute key cannot be found when processing

this is the absolute worst error message in all of computing. I despise it. Here is my situation.
SSAS 2008 R2.
I have one dimension. I have not even built my cube yet. only a dimension. I am trying to process it. I can process it when I only have a single attribute, they key. it is a composite key. When I add a new attribute (integer),
I get the error message. There are no null values. There are no blanks as its an integer.
The attribute key cannot be found where? I'm processing the dimension you idiot. there is not even a cube yet in order for any key to be found or not.

Hi Baracus,
According to your description, you get the error "Errors in the OLAP storage engine: The attribute key cannot be found when processing" when processing your cube, right?
Generally, the detail error message should like
Table: 'dbo_FactSales', Column: 'ProductID', Value: '1111'. The attribute is 'Product ID'
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Errors in the OLAP storage engine: A duplicate attribute key has been found when processing

Hi dear MSDN Community,
I am facing a problem while processing a cube with a customer hierarchy as follows:
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When are you having this error? While processing the dimension or during cube processing?
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Errors in OLAP storage engine when processing application

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After changing a logic in the application, we processed the application but it did not complete successfully due to the following error:
Error message:: CreateOLAPCubeForApplication:CreateCube:Errors in the OLAP storage engine: The attribute key cannot be found when processing: Table: 'dbo_tblFactQuality', Column: 'QACCOUNT', Value: '%ACCOUNTS%'. The attribute is 'QAccount_ID1'.
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This kind of error will come when you have some invalid member defined in your fact table. you can use the following SQL query to check it.
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Not very experienced with SSAS, but know the interface from Management Studio or from BIDS.
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Hello,
It seems any of your Key column value is present in the Fact table but that column key value is not present in the dimension table .
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Your Id =4 is present in fact table but it is not present in Dim table . So you are experiencing the issue
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Sanjeewan
Thanks Sanjeewan, but I am really not sure what is my fact table, I have a clue that the 'ReviewActivityDim' is my dim table.
Could you give me a hint to how to find it?
Bobby.

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