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    I am getting an error "Error communicating with connection process..."

    Your issue sounds more related to the MCM (Memory contract management) issue. You get this due to various reasons. Some of the common reasons are if the report result set is very large and when the I-server does not release the memory for this large report. If your cache size limit is small...
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    Can a View act as fact table( urgent)

    I have seen in one the dotcom organisation, they call their collection of all their internet data which is ofcourse was on one location as their data warehouse, so I think you might not be surprised to see that in other organisatios too. However that becomes a subject of debate. Since your...
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    DW Precision & Expectations

    It is possible to build a DW to support transactional level analysis and aggregatable analysis. But it requires a lot of effort to maintain over a period of time. If you forsee your data warehouse to expand considerably over a period of time then I would suggest to maintain a seperate...
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    Age Lookup table to fact table

    Thanks John. I will join lookup Age to the Member fact table. The reason I joined the lookup Age Hierarchy (lookup Age, Lookup Age Category, Lookup Age Group) to the Member dimension table is that, it will not increase the size of the Member fact table and also I can create 1:M...
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    Age Lookup table to fact table

    Scenario: Medical Background: Dimensions tables : Provider, DRG, Type of Service, Member, ICD9 Codes, Line Of Business, Age, Time. Fact table: ClaimInpatientFact, ClaimOutpatientfact, ClaimPharmafact, Memberfact. Granularity of Data: Month level. Challenge: Decision to have the Age...
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    Enterprise Manager IS_REP_SQL_LENGTH

    Check your EM Stastics configuration. teccum
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    Converting from micro strategy to Cognos Reportnet

    It depends upon what type of reports you are trying to convert. Classify your reports into something like simple, medium and complex. Simple reports usually contains some metrics, filters and some formatting for which you can allocate an 8 hour timeframe. Medium contains some...
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    About this forum - Non-technical

    I totally agree with iolaper. This forum is indeed very helpful to me and I belive would be for everyone. It would also be a good idea if people share their best practices which they follow and which they consider is newly implemented and efficient. teccum.
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    thread353-813028 cont'd... KPI's

    Each business have different KPIs, and eventually you need to target your questions according to that. What you might need is user requirements questionaire? Going through the existing reports that business users use will give u a basic idea of what they are expecting and will...
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    Login Restrictions For users

    FLB, I also had this option open but my I.T head wants to restrict the access to those set of user completely for a particular duration of time. I am thinking of handling it through command manager. I need to try that. Thanks for your ideas. teccum.
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    Login Restrictions For users

    FLB, I too do not prefer stoping the I - Server and hence, I am currently handling the user logins restriction by idling and loading of the project automatically through the schedule manager (time) feature, which I think is the same as what you have mentioned. I...
  12. teccum

    Date Prompt Display

    I have a requirement where a prompt which was created based on the date attribute with a " between " operator has to display its values side by side in desktop and it also has to display side by side in the Web instead of the default display of one below the other...
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    Synchronising projects

    You can also use Project Merge Wizard (If you have) and choose the option of "Keep both" as the rule to merge 'DEV' and 'LIVE' project to the 'DEV' project (which would be the target project) their by, keeping both the objects of 'DEV' and 'LIVE' in the 'DEV' project and...
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    Login Restrictions For users

    I have a requirement where the business wants to allow only certain users to login during peak hours (between 8.00 a.m to 11.00 a.m)everyday. So I have to restrict the login of certain users into MicroStrategy. Do anyone have an idea of how to restrict the user login for...
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    MicroStrategy's logic for Fact Table Auto-select

    NoobieRhyme, Microstrategy will select the fact table from the attributes which you have defined in your report template. Usually MSTR will select from the table which has the lesser LTS (logical table size). LTS is basically calculated based on the columns in your fact, aggregate and...
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    Star/Dimension Model question:Should DIM tables have only 1 attribute?

    Generally speaking you can have as many attributes within the dimension tables, but sometimes even though you design your schema irrespective of the OLAP tools, you might have to adjust your model as per the tool you are using. teccum
  17. teccum

    count days in a month

    Try Enabling the metric "# of days in month" to outer join. This can be done from the menu Data -> Report Data Options --> Metric Join Type. This issue is because, since you are having your sales fact in your fact table only the certain days in the May month. Since by default Mstr does a inner...
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    surrogate key on time dimension

    Using surrogate key for your time dimension allows consistency among the keys used between different dimensions. It is easy to maintain surogate keys than maintaining date as a key or any other sequence. If your going to keep your history less then it is more suitable. I have used surrogate...
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    Tables no populated in EM

    MSTRJD, Unfortunately, I believe it is not possible to recover the statistics data which was not logged. Remember, to capture all the data, choose the 'detailed' check box for the report jobs and if required for document jobs under the statistics option. teccum.
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    Tables no populated in EM

    MSTRJD, I came across the same type of issue few months back and I had to spend almost 3 days identifying what was the exact problem since the EM was collecting the data with respect to user creation, objects etc but not the report and session statistics. After different Permutations and...

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