Time Dimension - holiday flag

Hi,
Does anyone have good idea how to implement holiday_flag in time dimension?
I wondered if I added "holiday_flag" attribute,
however, our universe is global and holiday date is different between each countries.
Some ideas has come up as below, but I don't think those are good idea.
1. To create holiday_flag variable which is dimensioned by time and country.
2. To create holiday_flag_XXX attribute for each country.
3. To create holiday function which returns flag which indicates holiday or not.( to do that, kind of holiday cube would be required?)
The holiday_flag would be used to count business day or check for NAFILL.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Yukari.

Thanks for your reply. Did you use the dimension wizard of OWB to create pure relational dimensions (Not owb/oracle dimensional structures) ?
How did you work out week, financial years pieces upon using this OWB dimension wizard?
Thanks for your help.

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hi,
i am creating time dimension.
I want to populate the time dimension table.
How do i populate the "holiday column".
structure of my table is:
create table schema_owner.dimension_time (
calendar_date date,
day_of_year_number number,
day_of_week varchar2(9), -- day name.
week_number number, -- accounting week number(also known as period).
week_ending date, -- ends on friday.
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quarter_number number, -- ends on accounting month end.
holiday varchar(1) -- flag 'Y' is holiday, 'N' is no holiday.
) tablespace time_data ;
i am not able to populate the "holiday" column.
Please help me on this .

Hi,
You can use a CASE expression to return one thing for Sundays, and something else for every other day, like this:
CASE
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                  , 'fmDay'
            , 'NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE=ENGLISH'     -- If necessary
            ) = 'Sunday'
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Re: retrieving 7 business days
I hope this answers your question.
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How to create a working day/holiday attribute in Time Dimension with OWB ?

Hello everybody,
I am trying with no success to create a Time Dimension (with the wizard it would be easier...) with a working day or holiday attribute (0 or 1) to be able to calculate measures only on working time !!! I am totally sure it's possible, obviously, but I found nothing on forums... Could you help me ??
I use OWB 11g, I need all fiscal year/quarter/month/week and all calendar year/quarter/month/week attributes so without any wizard it would be quite impossible... thank you for your help !
NB: of course I know how to define if a day is a working one or not, but I currently can't add any columns in Time dim created with wizard...
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Edited by: [email protected] on Jun 15, 2009 8:24 AM

Hi,
First of all, thanks everyone for your help.
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First of all, i've tried with time_from = 000000 and time_to = 235959 (23:59:59 CET) and the activity has been created with Time From = 04:00:00 and Time To = 03:59:59
Strange no ??
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Time dimension population

Hi
I am taking "clndr" as source and populate time dimension table.Time dimension table ( granularity is an hourly basis) will be populated with date with 24 intervals and based on the cln_dt whether it falls in weekened or holiday ,If falls in weekened or holiday , populate 'Y' Else 'N' .Please see the below example
clndr(source table)
cln_dt cldr_day busday cldr_yr
1/05/2006 monday y 2005
2/5/2006 Tuesday y 2005
Expected data
==========
Time_dim(Target table)
Time_dt interval holidy ind
1/05/2006 0 N
1/05/2006 1 N
1/05/2006 2 N
1/05/2006 3 N
1/05/2006 23 N
2/5/2006 0 N
2/5/2006 1 N
2/5/2006 23 N
Thanksinadvance
MR

Try this, Modified Dnikiforov's solution:
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 select date#, hour, decode(busday,'Fri','Y','Sat','Y','Sun','Y','N') flag
2 from ( select to_date('06-MAY-06') date#, to_char(to_date(
3 '06-MAY-06'),'Dy') busday from dual
4 union all
5 select to_date('07-MAY-06') date#, to_char(to_date(
6 '07-MAY-06'),'Dy') from dual
7 union all
8 select to_date('08-MAY-06') date#, to_char(to_date(
9 '08-MAY-06'),'Dy') from dual ) calendar,
10 (select rownum-1 hour from dict where rownum <=24) hours
11* order by 1,2
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06-MAY-06       0 Y
06-MAY-06       1 Y
06-MAY-06       2 Y
06-MAY-06       3 Y
06-MAY-06       4 Y
06-MAY-06       5 Y
06-MAY-06       6 Y
06-MAY-06       7 Y
06-MAY-06       8 Y
06-MAY-06       9 Y
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06-MAY-06      11 Y
06-MAY-06      12 Y
06-MAY-06      13 Y
06-MAY-06      14 Y
06-MAY-06      15 Y
06-MAY-06      16 Y
06-MAY-06      17 Y
06-MAY-06      18 Y
06-MAY-06      19 Y
06-MAY-06      20 Y
06-MAY-06      21 Y
06-MAY-06      22 Y
06-MAY-06      23 Y
07-MAY-06       0 Y
07-MAY-06       1 Y
07-MAY-06       2 Y
07-MAY-06       3 Y
07-MAY-06       4 Y
07-MAY-06       5 Y
07-MAY-06       6 Y
07-MAY-06       7 Y
07-MAY-06       8 Y
07-MAY-06       9 Y
07-MAY-06      10 Y
07-MAY-06      11 Y
07-MAY-06      12 Y
07-MAY-06      13 Y
07-MAY-06      14 Y
07-MAY-06      15 Y
07-MAY-06      16 Y
07-MAY-06      17 Y
07-MAY-06      18 Y
07-MAY-06      19 Y
07-MAY-06      20 Y
07-MAY-06      21 Y
07-MAY-06      22 Y
07-MAY-06      23 Y
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08-MAY-06       1 N
08-MAY-06       2 N
08-MAY-06       3 N
08-MAY-06       4 N
08-MAY-06       5 N
08-MAY-06       6 N
08-MAY-06       7 N
08-MAY-06       8 N
08-MAY-06       9 N
08-MAY-06      10 N
08-MAY-06      11 N
08-MAY-06      12 N
08-MAY-06      13 N
08-MAY-06      14 N
08-MAY-06      15 N
08-MAY-06      16 N
08-MAY-06      17 N
08-MAY-06      18 N
08-MAY-06      19 N
08-MAY-06      20 N
08-MAY-06      21 N
08-MAY-06      22 N
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Time Dimension Consistency Error in RSRV - Need Help

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date
month
year
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You're right, this setup works!
But...
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http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/25852/Creating-Time-Dimension-in-Microsoft-Analysis-Serv
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I created a time dimension using WB with Cal yr and day heirarchy. Designed a cube using both and tried to deploy it. I got the following error.
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TIME_CUB1
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-- Modified Date : Wed May 12 08:41:59 CST 2010
-- Created By : edennis
-- Modified By : edennis
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-- Generated Object Name : FACT_TMP_SALDOS
-- Comments :
-- Copyright © 2000, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved.
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