New partition using XMLA

Hi,

I have an existing cube containing a single partition.

I am running the following xmla script to create a new partition :

<Create xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/analysisservices/2003/engine">

<ParentObject>

<DatabaseID>myDB_id</DatabaseID>

<CubeID>mycube_id</CubeID>

<MeasureGroupID>mymg_id</MeasureGroupID>

</ParentObject>

<ObjectDefinition>

<Partition xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

<ID>mypartition_M1</ID>

<Name>mypartition_M1</Name>

<Annotations>

<Annotation>

<Name>AggregationPercent</Name>

<Value>30</Value>

</Annotation>

</Annotations>

<Source xsi:type="QueryBinding">

<DataSourceID>myDS_id</DataSourceID>

<QueryDefinition>

SELECT blabla...

</QueryDefinition>

</Source>

<StorageMode>Molap</StorageMode>

<ProcessingMode>Regular</ProcessingMode>

<ProactiveCaching>

<SilenceInterval>-PT1S</SilenceInterval>

<Latency>-PT1S</Latency>

<SilenceOverrideInterval>-PT1S</SilenceOverrideInterval>

<ForceRebuildInterval>-PT1S</ForceRebuildInterval>

<AggregationStorage>MolapOnly</AggregationStorage>

<Source xsi:type="ProactiveCachingInheritedBinding">

<NotificationTechnique>Server</NotificationTechnique>

</Source>

</ProactiveCaching>

<EstimatedRows>1000000</EstimatedRows>

<AggregationDesignID>AggregationDesign</AggregationDesignID>

</Partition>

</ObjectDefinition>

</Create>

My partition is created and I can see it into SQL Server Management Studio.

I can process it as well and everything looks fine.

The only problem is that I cannot see the partition in BIDS which is quite strange....

Any ideas ?

Regards,

JL

BIDS works against project. Unless you made changes to the project - it won't see the changes on the live server. You can create new project by using "Import" option - i.e. create project from current server state. Or you can also work in "online mode" by doing File -> Open -> Analysis Services Database.|||

Mosha,

Thx a lot !

JL

New partition (SSAS 2005) - named query not in "available tables"

I'm trying to create another partition in an existing measure group.
I start the new partition wizard and choose my data source view in the
"Look in", and then click "Find tables".
My named query does not appear in the list. What could be wrong?

I have saved and refreshed the data source view. The named query has the
same column names and data types that the original table has (that the
measure group is using now).

I also tried to make the named query a ordinary view in the source
database but that does not appear in the list either (I choose the
data source then instead of the data source view).

Hi,

I wouldn't suspect that you'd see a named query in the list of tables when you go to create a new partition. I'm not sure if that list of tables shows views from the underlying DB, either..But, you can make your partition query binding, instead of table binding, and you can make the partition source the same query you're using in your named query, or a subset of it with a where clause, or whatever you choose.

HTH,
C
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I don't understand...

In the "New partition wizard" there isn't a whole lot to choose from... Pick either a data source or a data source view, and then pick the "table" - which I suppose could be a view, table, named query... When I choose data source view I can only see the table that is already being used as a fact table in the measure group (and this is actually a named query and not a table). When I choose the data soure, eg. the underlying database, I get nothing.

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I found the answer myself.

I thought I had the same datatypes because I created my new named query from the original table that the first named query (the one being used in the measure group already) was based on. But it turned out that the first named query did not get the same datatypes i all columns as the underlying table.

In BOL it states that the tables (or named queries) used in the same measure group must be sufficiently similar - I would call it exactly the same :-)