i am assuming you created the cube in visual studios. did you deploy the database/cube to an instance of analysis services?

could you post the article? maybe you got lost?

what are your a and b variables doing? depending on what you're doing it could be answered in a set-based solution

select *

from table1

where (a=0 and b=0 and ID=-99999) --compare...

In my second job i'm using php 5.2.9 and sql server 2005. it took me a little bit to get it all working (using iis 5!) but it all...