Creating Partions on Developer Edition

Hi,

I was trying to partition my cube built in MSAS 2005 Developer Edition based on time dimension, however I was running into a lot of issues.

I just read an article which states that cube partition is only possible on Enterprise Edition of MSAS 2005 can someone verify if it is true and if thats the case then why do they provide an option to partition the cube in the developer edition.

Thanks

You can create partitions on developer edition of SQL Server 2005/SSAS2005. Build partitions in BI-Developer Studio, process and check the cube in Management Studio after. Under the Cubes-folder, The cube and the measure group for that cube you can see the partitions.

Regards

Thomas Ivarsson

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Thomas,

I tried doing that, however if I try to create a partition using query binding and specify a select statement with a where clause. The SQL that MSAS 2005 generates when it builds the cube has a bunch of sub-selects and it fails to validate and so I am unble to build the cube with any new partitions

Thanks

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Developer Edition supports the functionallity of Enterprise Edition but with licensing limitations, so the problem is not related to the edition you are using. (Please see the licensing terms for details.) A more likely culprit is the relational provider you are using as it sounds like the provider does not support sub-selects. See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175608.aspx for a list of supported relational providers.

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Ok. It works with the Dev Edition so your problem is probably not about the version of SQL Server. It can be as simple as to check if a key is text, integer or any other datatype. IN 2005 you can build SQL statements for partitions in the same way you write a where clause in TSQL.

Run the new profiler that catches all statements from SSAS2005 and see if any strange behavior appears.

Regards

Thomas Ivarsson

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Hi,

Thanks for the response guys.

Matt I had one quick question if I am able to process a cube using table binding as opposed to query binding to create partitions and the sql generated during processing of the cube does have sub selects and it does build the cube sucessfully I dont think I would have an issue with my provider correct?

Thomas : I am not quite clear about the part where you say " It can be as simple as to check if a key is text, integer or any other datatype" can you please expand on this

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I do these errors myself. A key is an integer but I write with a ' ' around it(or reverse). I do not think that my query bound partitions do subselects. It is a normal select query, with a where clause added for you, when I have tried it.

Regards

Thomas Ivarsson

|||If you are using one of the supported providers you should not have any problem. If you are not, it may be that some things are supported in sub-selects but other things are not so some queries may succeed while others fail. You should be able to see the queries the server is generating them and then you can check and see if they are supported by the provider.