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While adding datedimension to cube it is showing three other dimensions.

  • March 19, 2013 at 6:34 am

    #275357

    Hi, i am newbie to ssas..

    while i was creating a new project following instructions in msdn(using adventureworks dw db) and trying to add date dimension to the cube it is adding three other dimensions like shipdate,duedate,orderdate and actual datedimension doesnt appear in the cube.

    pls help me understand why is it like that..what shuld it do to make it correct..

  • March 22, 2013 at 1:28 pm

    #1599973

    Read up on datawarehousing and Denormalization, that will help.

    Basically, you do have three different date values. This those dates are describing(dimension) the values in the fact table.

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  • March 25, 2013 at 12:26 am

    #1600180

    thanks ravi..

    i got the issue...i have three date keys in fact table ..so when i am adding date dimension i am having 3 dimensions one for every foriegn key with date dim

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