FromClause (Dimension Interface)

Note

  This feature will be removed in the next version of Microsoft SQL Server. Do not use this feature in new development work, and modify applications that currently use this feature as soon as possible.

The FromClause property of the Dimension interface contains the SQL FROM clause for the dimension.

Applies To:clsAggregationDimension, clsCubeDimension, clsDatabaseDimension, clsPartitionDimension

Data Type

String

Access

Access depends on the value of the ClassType property of the object.

Class type	Access
clsDatabaseDimension	R/W
clsCubeDimension	R
clsPartitionDimension	R
clsAggregationDimension	R/W

Example

A database contains the following tables:

• Sales_Facts

• Customer

• Product

• Product_Class

• Promotion

• Store

• Calendar

The following diagram illustrates the relationships of these tables.

Use the following code to create a dimension, assign a data source, and set the FromClause property:

    Dim dsoServer As New DSO.Server
    Dim dsoDB As DSO.MDStore
    Dim dsoDS As DSO.DataSource
    Dim dsoDim As DSO.Dimension
    
    ' Connect to local Analysis server.
    dsoServer.Connect "LocalHost"
    
    ' Open TestDB database.
    Set dsoDB = dsoServer.MDStores("TestDB")

    ' Create a Product dimension for the database.
    Set dsoDim = dsoDB.Dimensions.AddNew("Products")

    ' Create a data source.
    Set dsoDS = dsoDB.DataSources.AddNew("FoodMart 2000")
    dsoDS.ConnectionString = "Provider=MSDASQL.1;" & _
        "Persist Security Info=False;" & _
        "Data Source=FoodMart;" & _
        "Connect Timeout=15"

    ' Assign the data source to the dimension.
    Set dsoDim.DataSource = dsoDS   'Set the dimension data source.
    dsoDim.FromClause = "product"   'Set the source dimension table.

    ' Update the database.
    dsoDB.Update

See Also

Reference

Dimension Interface