SSAS Adventure Works Tutorial prerequisites

I'm doing the tutorial SSAS "http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms170402(v=sql.100).aspx".
But I am not able to proceed because I have not in my AdventureWorks the requested tables (DimCustomer (DBO), DimDate (DBO), DimGeography (DBO), DimProduct (DBO), FactInternetSales (dbo)).
I have done downloading various versions of the AdventureWorks"http://msftdbprodsamples.codeplex.com/" link and not against those tables.
Does anyone have a link for me to create and populate these tables?

The SSAS project base on the "AdventureWorksDW" (DW
= data warehouse) database, you can get it here:
http://msftdbprodsamples.codeplex.com/releases/view/105902
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Adventure Works - Financial Reporting - Amount - Currency Conversion

Hi all,
I was looking into currency conversion in the Adventure Works cube (SQL2008R2).
For each measure that need to be converted, a measure expression is used (e.g.: [Internet Sales Amount] / [Average Rate]), except for Amout in the measure group Financial Reporting.
When creating a pivot table with that measure and changing the destination currency, the Amount is converted to the selected currency.
How is it done ? (because there is no measure expression for that one)
(I had a look at the MDX script of that cube, but could not find anything about that)
Thanks for your answers.
Kind Regards,
Guillaume

Hi Guillaume,
According to your description, you are looking for currency conversion in the Adventure Works cube. In Analysis Services, we can use the Business Intelligence Wizard to define currency conversion functionality for a cube, or you can manually define currency
conversions using MDX scripts. For the detail information about it, please see:
Currency Conversions (Analysis Services - Multidimensional Data)
Currency Conversion in Analysis Services
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Adventure Works STORE sample table question

Dear all,
I am actually studing the database structure of the AW sample database, which is quite close to one of my current project architecture.
I have seen in this sample database that the CUSTOMER table seems to be used to identify either a STORE of a physical Person through the PersonID column.
My question is that if we define a STORE information from that sample databse where can we find the address, tel, ... of the STORE ?
Does those information for a store is actually not in that sample or do we consider that there is at least a contact person for a defined STORE and the address and telephone of that physical primary contact person identify also the STORE contact info ?
Thanks for clarification
regards

AdventureWorks Cycles selling bikes and related accessories both online to individual buyers and through resellers (dealers, stores).
BOL: "As a bicycle manufacturing company, Adventure Works Cycles has two types of customers:
Individuals. These are consumers who buy products from the Adventure Works Cycles online store.
Stores. These are retail or wholesale stores that buy products for resale from Adventure Works Cycles sales representatives."
Here are the related tables:
SELECT * FROM [AdventureWorks2012].[Sales].[Customer];
CustomerID PersonID StoreID TerritoryID AccountNumber rowguid ModifiedDate
700 NULL 1030 5 AW00000700 540FB57F-F81A-4794-8E9A-C071C4F0BC18 2008-10-13 11:15:07.263
701 NULL 844 6 AW00000701 61AE9625-8BD8-48B7-B171-8A90CBBA494C 2008-10-13 11:15:07.263
11000 13531 NULL 9 AW00011000 477586B3-2977-4E54-B1A8-569AB2C7C4D4 2008-10-13 11:15:07.263
11001 5454 NULL 9 AW00011001 C32A8084-9077-4F13-9738-1E2DA7C1DCD9 2008-10-13 11:15:07.263
11002 11269 NULL 9 AW00011002 45715DD8-2F57-4A39-BEB4-6A8F99D59794 2008-10-13 11:15:07.263
SELECT * FROM [AdventureWorks2012].[Sales].[Store];
BusinessEntityID Name SalesPersonID .......
292 Next-Door Bike Store 279
294 Professional Sales and Service 276
296 Riders Company 277
298 The Bike Mechanics 275
300 Nationwide Supply 286
Here is the data model description:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms124824(v=sql.100).aspx
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Please HELP me with getting the right version of Adventure Works database

Hi,
I have SQL SERVER 2008 R2 installed with me. And i have downloaded 'AdventureWorks2008R2_Database' from msdn links only.
It is running fine.
Now the practise material i have with me is where employee table have columns precisely as in this link here 'http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms124432(v=sql.100).aspx'. And the version which i downloaded and using doesnot have these.
So need help with actual version which would have all these columns.
Thanks

Hello,
That's link is to the documentation of Version 2008, in Version
2008 R2 the design has changed a little bit. Download the example for version 2008 is you Need exact that table design.
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How to know the customer item in Basket in Adventure Works sample db

Dear all,
In AW sample DB there is a ShopingCartItem table where user can place product they want to buy.
In from that ShopingCardItem there seems to be no information a USer ID which place them in or is there somewhere ?
regards

It is not a complete, fully functional database. There is no ShoppingCart table for example.
AdventureWorks database is a very excellent demo database. Good job Microsoft!
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Not able to attach Adventure works Database to SQL server 2012 Management studio

Hello
while i try to attach AdventureWorks2012 database to SQL Server 2012 Management Studio i am getting the following error
Msg 1813, Level 16, State 2, Line 1
Could not open new database 'AdventureWorks2012'. CREATE DATABASE is aborted.
Msg 948, Level 20, State 1, Line 1
The database 'AdventureWorks2012' cannot be opened because it is version 705. This server supports version 662 and earlier. A downgrade path is not supported.
Kindly help me in this regard
Thanks
Joey

Hi,
You can use the following query to achieve the version of SQL Server.
Select @@version
As the previous comments, you can either upgrade to SQL Server 2012 or attach the AdventureWorks2008 database in the link which KevinNicholas provided.
Additional information:
How to determine the version and edition of SQL Server and its components
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321185/en-us
Upgrade to SQL Server 2012 Using the Installation Wizard (Setup)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms144267.aspx
Thanks.
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Adventure works database sample question

Dear all,
I need to build a database structure for a shop which is actually selling home furniture and I have seen that quite many table from the AW database could fit my scenario but I have some points that I do not catch in that sample.
If anyone could light my brain I will appreciate.
1- First of all in many tables I can see a reference to a BusinessEntityID but could find any table where BusinessEntity is define ?
2- In my scenario my company will have full control on the database and will resell the software to shops. Shops can be a single shop of belonging to a HeadOffice which is the owner of those shops. The following picture illustrate this
- Shops Owner 1 to 3 are customers of My COMPANY
- Shop 1 to Shop 3 are customers of respective ShopOwner
How can I define and identify those entity in AW sample database ?
Thnaks for help
regards

So does a BusinessEntiy is nothing else than a CUSTOMER in fact ?
IN orther word does each of my blue box in my picture is a BusinessEntity = a Customer?
May be it is just a matter of naming but need to catch it correctly :-)
Hi wakefun,
A business entity is a person or business which has zero or more addresses and zero or more people related to it. For example, the people related to a store would typically be purchasing agents of a retail sporting or bicycle store who buy bicycles wholesale
from AdventureWorks Cycles. A person related to an employee might be the employee’s emergency contact.
In AdventureWorks2008R2 and 2012, the concept of a customer has also been broadened, a customer can be any person or a store. This enables employees (for example) to be customers without storing redundant information about them.
For more information about BusinessEntity tables in AdventureWorks2008R2, you can review the following post.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/dfc1c1f6-cf33-491e-aec1-5803cb406572/explain-businessentity-tables-in-adventureworks2008r2?forum=sqlserversamples
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How to find the last records of the table in adventure work db

hi all,
i want to find out " how to receive a last records of the table (eg: person.emailaddress ) in sql 2008 and 2005"
Thanks

If you are looking for the latest record( the one which got inserted/modified last) then use this query
select top 1 * from person.emailaddress
Order by ModifiedDate desc
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Attaching Adventure Works Database

Hello team members,
During Attach the AdventureWorks2008 database_data.mdf, the error message shows up:
Msg 262, Level 14, State 1, Line 1
CREATE DATABASE permission denied in database 'master'

Hi,
Your user don't have permission to create a database. You can change the user permission and grant CREATE ANY DATABASE. Or you can use the sa.

SSAS relationship help

Hi all,
I have created an SSIS package which takes forecasting info from one system, and has lookups that lookup a bunch of stuff from another system. I then dump all this info into a table as below. Users, as they are, have now said ooooo wouldn't it be great
if we could analyse all this by customer, time, parts, pricing etc. which is all stored in this table. That immediately made me think SSAS cube. Now i'm pretty comfortable in SQL and SSIS. When it comes to SSAS i'm a bit of a noob.
My attempts to turn this into a cube have been a bit in vain. Therefore considering the following relationships how could i implement this in SSAS.
Customers have their own parts and share parts with other customers. (some customers have identical products)
Even if a customer has the same product as another they will have different PRICING. All other data i.e. weights, qty's etc. can just be aggregated.
For a customer and product the price could also CHANGE. So therefore a customer's product can have multiple prices. (but 1 active price)
I was thinking of creating a TIME dimension and linking that to W/C date. Basically I just need a bit of guidance into how to break this up and create in SSAS. A fast response would be much appreciated as they need this info for financial reporting
etc. Thanks for your help!
Could someone help me with this please it's getting quite urgent...

Hi jhowe1,
According to your description, you want to create a cube for the data in your above table. Right?
In this scenario, these data should be from different tables. In database, I think you have dim tables like Customer, Product, Date. We can create
dimensions based on these tables. And you can define attribute relationship in dimension, like different customer has identical product with different price. Please refer to a link below:
Dimension Relationships
Creating a New Dimension Using the Dimension Wizard
For data like Quantities, Sales, which need to be aggregated based on dimension. We should have some fact tables in database, and we can create
measures based on these fact tables.
For creating a entire cube, please see an article below:
Create First OLAP Cube in SQL Server Analysis Services
Also you can download an
AdventureWorksDW sample database for practice based on the tutorial below:
Multidimensional Modeling (Adventure Works Tutorial)
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Unable to import data in SSAS Tabular Project

I am using SQL Server 2012 Enterprise edition.
I installed one instance of SQL server in Tabular model in addition to the one installed in multi dimensional mode .
I Attached AdventureWorks2012DW database through SSMs and it worked .
Then I created a Tabular Analysis project,attached a AdventureWorks2012DW Database,specified tables to include (FactInternetSales and related table) and clicked finish.But the data could not be imported.
Can anyone help?

Hi Somesh420,
In a tabular project, we can import data by using Table Import Wizard in SQL Server Data Tools. Connect to the database, select data, preview, and filter the data, and then import the data into your model workspace. Here is a tutorial about how to create
a tabular database. Please refer to the follow link.
Tabular Modeling (Adventure Works Tutorial)
If the issue persists, please post the detail error message and describe the steps you did, so that we can make further analysis.
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Greater than Equal to Functionality when retirivng data from SSAS 2008 cube using SSRS 2012 report not working

I have an SSRS 2012 report and SSAS Cube in 2008. My report criterion requires filtering on measures. So Created measures as dimensions . The report requires >= functionality on the measures. But in the Query designer of
the report there is =, IN, Within Range ,Excluding range , MDX as the operators.
To achieve my goal. I have “From” and “To” as parameters on the numeric dimension. The “To” parameter I have set as internal and setting
the default value of “TO” .By writing another Dataset query that returns the “MAX”
value and the MAX value returned is a member of the measure converted to dim I confirmed.. So this whole works as >=.The user enters only the “FROM” parameter and the “TO” is set internally. The user can enter any value in the “From” parameter. Any
value that is not even a member.It is a textbox. I cannot use a list of values from the “From” parameter.
But whenever I run the report after entering all the selection criteria
I keep getting
Error “the restrictions imposed by the constrained flag in the strtomember functions were violated”
I know this means that Max value in the “TO” section is not a member .
I did try
: StrToMember("[Fact RCS CV BLAST].[APPRLIMIT ACH].
&[" & @ToFactRCSCVBLASTAPPRLIMITACH &
"]", CONSTRAINED) )
But I get “syntax for the “&” is incorrect”
If I use Drop down for the “From” and “To” parameters then it works fine. But that’s not what Business Users need.
Please let me know what the options to make this work. I did use parameters that filter the
Dataset returned it works fine but there is a performance impact.

Hi,
I think if you use the following method you will be able to compare the members.
CDbl(StrToMember("[Fact RCS CV BLAST].[APPRLIMIT ACH].&[" + @ToFactRCSCVBLASTAPPRLIMITACH + "]").Member_Name)
As you mentioned that you converted your measures as dimensions, you are having an integer value as the member name. In that case use VBA functions with MDX to do the datatype conversion.
Take a look into the following MDX written against Adventure Works;
WITH CALCULATED MEMBER [Measures].[Member Name] AS
CInt
Right
CStr
[Date].[Calendar Year].CURRENTMEMBER.MEMBER_NAME
), 4
SELECT {[Measures].[Sales Amount], [Measures].[Member Name]} ON COLUMNS,
FILTER
[Date].[Calendar Year].[Calendar Year].MEMBERS,
CInt(Right(CStr([Date].[Calendar Year].CURRENTMEMBER.MEMBER_NAME), 4)) >= 2005 AND
CInt(Right(CStr([Date].[Calendar Year].CURRENTMEMBER.MEMBER_NAME), 4)) <=2008
} ON ROWS
FROM [Adventure Works]
I am filtering the Years by using the member names by extracting the Integer portion of the member name and applying data type conversion functions in VBA. So I
Keep in mind that you have to get rid of the CONSTRAINED clause if your business users can enter anything on the SSRS text box.

First Time Working with SSAS

I'm reading a couple books on SSAS and trying to build a simple cube. I'm using Adventure Works, and I can load a data source but whenever I try to load a data source view, I always get this error.
Absolutely nothing works. What am I doing wrong here?
Thanks.
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Hi Ryguy72,
According to your description, you get the error when opening data source view, right? This is a known issue which was described on the link below. And there is a workaround for it, please see:
http://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/747115/ssdt-not-opening-data-source-view
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/d65c71f5-3887-4f2a-bbd3-e799a4ac6fdc/visual-studio-database-tools-error
If this is not what you want, please describe the creation steps in your project. Here is a blog which describes how to create a cube step by step, and it used Adventure work database as the sample database, please refer to the link below.
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/607134/BuildingplusYourplusFirstplusAnalysisplusServicesp
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SSAS report action to pass multi-value list of dimention key values to a SSRS report parameter

This was originally posted on StackOverflow and suggested I try here as well.
I want to create a report action in an SSAS OLAP cube that generates a list of formatted values to pass into an SSRS report parameter that accepts a multi-valued parameter list. This would be applied at the
cell level in the SSAS action. I have found a solution that gets me most of the way:
How to Pass Multiple Values from an SSAS Report Drill Through Action to an SSRS Multi-Value Parameter, but not quite. The action does appear in Excel and works
if I run the action from a cell that is at or below the dimension attribute I am generating the list for, in this case,
Account Key.
Below is a link to a screen capture (unable to embed it due to lack of reputation) showing the action and dimension structure in Excel. The action works as long as I run it at the
Account Key level or below. I want to be able to run it at higher levels, such as
Account Major and still have it generate all then related Account Key values for the SSRS report parameter. Running it at the higher
Account Major level does not trigger the report to run.
Excel Action Screen Shot:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/QCGSp.png
Below is the MDX I am using to generate the value for the report parameter:
UrlEscapeFragment(
GENERATE(
DESCENDANTS(
[Account].[Account Key].CurrentMember,
[Account].[Account Key].[Account Key]
[Account].[Account Key].CURRENTMEMBER.Name,
"&rp:Account="
I am hoping that I can somehow modify the MDX above to make it return all the
Account Keys for any attribute of the Account dimension when ran from any measure cell, not just when ran at self and children of
Account Key in the pivot table.
Also, if it helps, I can execute the following MDX query on the cube and get the results I am looking for.
WITH MEMBER [Measures].[Account Key List] as
GENERATE(
DESCENDANTS([Account].[Account].CurrentMember, [Account].[Account].[Account]),
[Account].[Account].CURRENTMEMBER.NAME,
"&rp:Account=")
SELECT {[Measures].[Account Key List]} on 0,
([Account].[Account Company Number].[Account Company Number],[Account].[Account Major].[Account Major]
) on 1
FROM [Company 10 Action Demo]
Below are partial results:
10.116&rp:Account=10.116.010
10.117&rp:Account=10.117.010&rp:Account=10.117.020
10.120&rp:Account=10.120.005&rp:Account=10.120.006&rp:Account=10.120.010&rp:Account=10.120.020&rp:Account=10.120.030&rp:Account=10.120.040&rp:Account=10.120.050&rp:Account=10.120.060&rp:Account=10.120.380&rp:Account=10.120.999
10.123
Questions
Any ideas what I might need to do to get Account Key to be returned for any attribute of the
Account dimension?
Would I possibly have to alter my Account dimension in the cube to get this to work?
Thanks in advance.
Edit 1 - Adventure Works Cube Version
I was unable to get the suggested answer with the "Exists" function to work. To better demonstrate this issue, I have recreated it using the Adventure Works Cube.
I will focus on the Customer dimension, specifically the Customer and
Education attributes. I created a report action called Test Report Action. Below is the XML created for it in the cube.
<Action xsi:type="ReportAction" dwd:design-time-name="f35ad5ee-5167-4fb8-a0e0-0a74cc6e81c6">
<ID>Report Action 1</ID>
<Name>Test Report Action</Name>
<TargetType>Cells</TargetType>
<Target></Target>
<Type>Report</Type>
<ReportServer>SQLSERVER</ReportServer>
<Path>ReportServer?/Test Report</Path>
<ReportParameters>
<ReportParameter>
<Name>Test Customer Existing</Name>
<Value>UrlEscapeFragment(
GENERATE(
EXISTING DESCENDANTS(
[Customer].[Customer].CurrentMember,
[Customer].[Customer].[Customer]
[Customer].[Customer].CURRENTMEMBER.Name,
"&rp:Customer="
)</Value>
</ReportParameter>
</ReportParameters>
<ReportFormatParameters>
<ReportFormatParameter>
<Name>rs:Command</Name>
<Value>Render</Value>
</ReportFormatParameter>
<ReportFormatParameter>
<Name>rs:Renderer</Name>
<Value>HTML5</Value>
</ReportFormatParameter>
</ReportFormatParameters>
</Action>
Below are the steps to re-create the issue.
Connect to the cube in Excel
Add dimension Customer -> More Fields -> Customer
Add measure Internet Sales -> Internet Sales Amount
Right-click Internet Sales Amount cell, select "Additional Actions" -> "Test Report Action" and see customer values created for URL
When the action is ran at this point with Customer, I see the values created in the URL shown message box (since there is no SSRS report server at location specified).
Now the part I'm unable to resolve
Remove the Customer dimension and add Customer -> Demographic -> Education
Right-click Internet Sales Amount cell, select "Additional Actions" -> "Test Report Action"
Nothing happens. If I ran the action on the cell next to "Bachelors", I would want it to build up all the list of all the "Customers" that make up the "Bachelors" in the
Customer dimension as part of the report parameter. If no attributes where used in the cube from the
Customer dimension for that cell, then I would like it to return "All Customers", or something similar to show that all customers are included in the aggregations.
I am not too MDX savvy, thus far. I think I need to somehow join the
Customers to Internet Sales Amount in the Generate function portion. I have tried several different combinations of the
Customer dimension and Internet Sales Amount, along with various functions to see if I could get this to work with no success. I am hoping that someone more knowledgeable the me will have a solution. If you need more details,
please ask and I will provide them.

Simon,
Thanks for you help with this. This morning I found a workaround. Below describes what that is.
What I ended up doing was getting a list of values from a degenerate dimension that I could use to pass to SSRS to get a list of transactions for a report. Below is how I did this, in relation to the Adventure Works cube using the degenerate dimension
Internet Order Details.
WITH MEMBER [Measures].[Order Param List] AS
GENERATE(
EXISTS([Internet Sales Order Details].[Sales Order Number].[Sales Order Number].Members, ,
"Internet Sales"),
[Internet Sales Order Details].[Sales Order Number].CurrentMember.Name,
"&rp:OrderNum=")
SELECT {[Measures].[Order Param List], [Measures].[Internet Sales Amount]} ON 0
,([Date].[Calendar].[Date]) ON 1
FROM [Adventure Works]
This will get a list of Sales Order Number in a text string, separated by "&rp:OrderNum=" for each measure of
Internet Sales. This would allow me to create an SSRS report to bring back detail information for each
Sales Order Number. Below are some sample results.
May 16, 2007 SO50493&rp:OrderNum=SO50494&rp:OrderNum=SO50495&rp:OrderNum=SO50496&rp:OrderNum=SO50497&rp:OrderNum=SO50498&rp:OrderNum=SO50499&rp:OrderNum=SO50500 $12,157.80
May 17, 2007 SO50501&rp:OrderNum=SO50502&rp:OrderNum=SO50503&rp:OrderNum=SO50504&rp:OrderNum=SO50505&rp:OrderNum=SO50506&rp:OrderNum=SO50507&rp:OrderNum=SO50508 $13,231.62
May 18, 2007 SO50509&rp:OrderNum=SO50510 $4,624.91
With this, I can then create a Report Action in SSRS with a Parameter Value of
UrlEscapeFragment(
GENERATE(
EXISTS([Internet Sales Order Details].[Sales Order Number].[Sales Order Number].Members, ,
"Internet Sales"),
[Internet Sales Order Details].[Sales Order Number].CurrentMember.Name,
"&rp:OrderNum=")
The way I was going about it before was flawed, as I was trying to get a list of the granular values from each dimension used to build the measure value and pass each one of those as separate parameters. I just needed to set something unique for each fact
measure transaction that represents the value and uses that in a query parameter for the SSRS report.

How to allow users to pick up a specific week for a report based on SSAS Cube

hi Folks:
I have created a report which is pretty simple: for a specific week, I want to know the total values. This specific week comes from a Fiscal Calendar hierarchy ( Year - Quarter - Month - Week) .
Now, I want to create a parameter called @specificWeek to this cube based report so that users could pick any week they want ( no multiple values allowed). I understand that I need to create a parameter @specificWeek and created a dataset to
populate .
After that, find a way to embed this paramenter into the main MDX query .
Can someone show me how to do this?
Below is the sample from cube Adventure Works, I want to make the Hierarchy Date.FisCal Weeks as the parameter,
how to implement? thanks
--Currently using Reporting Service 2000; Visual Studio .NET 2003; Visual Source Safe SSIS 2008 SSAS 2008, SVN --

hi Ayad:
I've done the following steps
1. In shared datasets, drag all fields I need in and drag the data hierarchy into the filter and check it as a parameter.
2. On the reportData pane, when I right click the datasets, I did not see any option says show hidden dataset.
3. WHen I run the report, it did not pop up the dropdown list for the week selection.
Any ideas? thanks
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