error: data source name not found

  • hi,

    i am new to analysis services. i was running the foodmart tutorial. i created a dsn as specified in the included tutorial. I was able to create the cube also. but when i process the cude, i get an error saying, like "ODBC error: data source name not found or no default driver specified". what could it be? have gone crazy with this one...

    any help would be appreciated.

    sumeet

  • hi

    i have the same problem

    any help if y've found the solution would be appreciated

    thanks

  • Did you create a system DSN or a user DSN?  What driver are you using and are there any user specific attriutes that you had to specify when creating the DSN?

    Steve.

  • i added ODBC SOURCE with the control pannel and i can connect to the remote data base i can have samples of data when browsing the cube but the pprocessing failed

     

  • Hi Ben,

    The reason I asked re: the System or USer DSN is that if it's a user DSN you're user account can access it but the account under which the AS service runs most likely can't.  Go back to control panel|Data Sources (or ODBC Connections if pre WinXP/2K3) and look at the tabs, you should see something like [User]|[System]|[File], if the DSN is in the user tab, create one in the system tab.

    I can't remeber whether the sample data is fetched from the datasource, but if it is, it will be done usin your ccount credentials not the credentials under which the service runs.

    HTH,

    Steve.

  • hi

    thank you a lot steve, you are right, i had to create a DSN in the system tab

     

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