Representación de relaciones (tabular)
Una relación es una conexión entre dos tablas de datos. La relación establece cómo se deben relacionar los datos de las dos tablas.
Vea Representación de relaciones (tabular) para obtener una explicación detallada acerca de cómo crear y manipular la representación de la relación.
Representación de relaciones
En los modelos tabulares, se pueden definir varias relaciones entre dos tablas. Cuando se definen varias relaciones entre dos tablas, solo una puede establecerse como la relación predeterminada del modelo y se denomina relación "activa". Todas las demás relaciones se denominan "inactivas".
Relación en AMO
Por lo que respecta a los objetos AMO, todas las relaciones inactivas tienen una representación de asignación de uno a uno con Relationship y no se necesita ningún otro objeto AMO principal. En el caso de la relación activa, hay otros requisitos y, además, es necesaria una asignación con ReferenceMeasureGroupDimension.
En los fragmentos de código siguientes se muestra cómo se crea una relación en modelos tabulares, cómo se activa una relación y cómo se define una clave principal en una tabla (distinta de “RowNumber”). Para crear una relación activa, debe definirse una clave principal en la tabla de clave principal - PKTableName - de la relación (uno de los extremos de la relación). En el ejemplo que se muestra aquí, se crea la clave principal de PKColumnName si no hay ninguna clave principal definida en la columna. Se pueden crear relaciones inactivas sin necesidad de tener una clave principal en la columna de clave principal.
private Boolean createRelationship(string PKTableName, string PKColumnName, string MVTableName, string MVColumnName, AMO.Database tabularDb, string cubeName, Boolean forceActive)
{
//verify input parameters
if( string.IsNullOrEmpty(PKTableName) || string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(PKTableName)
|| string.IsNullOrEmpty(PKColumnName) || string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(PKColumnName)
|| string.IsNullOrEmpty(MVTableName) || string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(MVTableName)
|| string.IsNullOrEmpty(MVColumnName) || string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(MVColumnName)
|| (tabularDb == null)
) return false;
if(!tabularDb.Dimensions.ContainsName(PKTableName) || !tabularDb.Dimensions.ContainsName(MVTableName)) return false;
if(!tabularDb.Dimensions[PKTableName].Attributes.ContainsName(PKColumnName) || !tabularDb.Dimensions[MVTableName].Attributes.ContainsName(MVColumnName)) return false;
//Verify underlying cube structure
if (!tabularDb.Cubes[cubeName].Dimensions.ContainsName(PKTableName) || !tabularDb.Cubes[cubeName].Dimensions.ContainsName(MVTableName)) return false; //Should return an exception!!
if (!tabularDb.Cubes[cubeName].MeasureGroups.ContainsName(PKTableName) || !tabularDb.Cubes[cubeName].MeasureGroups.ContainsName(MVTableName)) return false; //Should return an exception!!
//Make sure PKTableName.PKColumnName is set as PK ==> <attribute>.usage == AMO.AttributeUsage.Key
if (tabularDb.Dimensions[PKTableName].Attributes[PKColumnName].Usage != AMO.AttributeUsage.Key)
{
//... here we are 'fixing', if there is an issue with PKTableName.PKColumnName not beeing the PK of the table
setPKColumn(tabularDb, PKTableName, PKColumnName);
}
//Terminology note:
// - the many side of the relationship is named the From end in AMO
// - the PK side of the relationship in named the To end in AMO
//
//It seems relationships flow FROM the many side of the relationship in TO the primary key side of the relationship in AMO
//
//Verify the relationship we are creating does not exist, regardless of name.
//if it exists, return true (no need to recreate it)
//if it doesn't exists it will be created after this validation
//
foreach (AMO.Relationship currentRelationship in tabularDb.Dimensions[MVTableName].Relationships)
{
if ((currentRelationship.FromRelationshipEnd.Attributes[0].AttributeID == MVColumnName)
&& (currentRelationship.ToRelationshipEnd.DimensionID == PKTableName)
&& (currentRelationship.ToRelationshipEnd.Attributes[0].AttributeID == PKColumnName))
{
if (forceActive)
{
//Activate the relationship
setActiveRelationship(tabularDb.Cubes[cubeName], MVTableName, MVColumnName, PKTableName, currentRelationship.ID);
//Update server with changes made here
tabularDb.Update(AMO.UpdateOptions.ExpandFull, AMO.UpdateMode.CreateOrReplace);
tabularDb.Cubes[cubeName].MeasureGroups[MVTableName].Process(AMO.ProcessType.ProcessFull);
}
return true;
}
}
//A relationship like the one to be created does not exist; ergo, let's create it:
//First, create the INACTIVE relationship definitions in the MultipleValues end of the relationship
#region define unique name for relationship
string newRelationshipID = string.Format("Relationship _{0}_{1}_ to _{2}_{3}_", MVTableName, MVColumnName, PKTableName, PKColumnName);
int rootLen = newRelationshipID.Length;
for (int i = 0; tabularDb.Dimensions[MVTableName].Relationships.Contains(newRelationshipID); )
{
newRelationshipID = string.Format("{0}_{1,8:0}", newRelationshipID.Substring(0, rootLen), i);
}
#endregion
AMO.Relationship newRelationship = tabularDb.Dimensions[MVTableName].Relationships.Add(newRelationshipID);
newRelationship.FromRelationshipEnd.DimensionID = MVTableName;
newRelationship.FromRelationshipEnd.Attributes.Add(MVColumnName);
newRelationship.FromRelationshipEnd.Multiplicity = AMO.Multiplicity.Many;
newRelationship.FromRelationshipEnd.Role = string.Empty;
newRelationship.ToRelationshipEnd.DimensionID = PKTableName;
newRelationship.ToRelationshipEnd.Attributes.Add(PKColumnName);
newRelationship.ToRelationshipEnd.Multiplicity = AMO.Multiplicity.One;
newRelationship.ToRelationshipEnd.Role = string.Empty;
//Update server to create relationship
tabularDb.Update(AMO.UpdateOptions.ExpandFull, AMO.UpdateMode.UpdateOrCreate);
tabularDb.Dimensions[MVTableName].Process(AMO.ProcessType.ProcessDefault);
tabularDb.Dimensions[PKTableName].Process(AMO.ProcessType.ProcessDefault);
//Second, activate the relationship if relationship is to be set as the active relationship: 'forceActive==true'
//... an inactive relationship needs only to be created on the dimensions object
if (forceActive)
{
//Activate the relationship
setActiveRelationship(tabularDb.Cubes[cubeName], MVTableName, MVColumnName, PKTableName, newRelationshipID);
}
return true;
}
private void setActiveRelationship(AMO.Cube currentCube, string MVTableName, string MVColumnName, string PKTableName, string relationshipID)
{
if (!currentCube.MeasureGroups.Contains(MVTableName))
{
throw new AMO.AmoException(string.Format("Cube [{0}] does not contain Measure Group [{1}]\nError activating relationship [{2}]: [{4}] <--- [{1}].[{3}]"
, currentCube.Name, MVTableName, relationshipID, MVColumnName, PKTableName));
}
AMO.MeasureGroup currentMG = currentCube.MeasureGroups[MVTableName];
if (!currentMG.Dimensions.Contains(PKTableName))
{
AMO.ReferenceMeasureGroupDimension newReferenceMGDim = new AMO.ReferenceMeasureGroupDimension();
newReferenceMGDim.CubeDimensionID = PKTableName;
newReferenceMGDim.IntermediateCubeDimensionID = MVTableName;
newReferenceMGDim.IntermediateGranularityAttributeID = MVColumnName;
newReferenceMGDim.Materialization = AMO.ReferenceDimensionMaterialization.Regular;
newReferenceMGDim.RelationshipID = relationshipID;
foreach (AMO.CubeAttribute PKAttribute in currentCube.Dimensions[PKTableName].Attributes)
{
AMO.MeasureGroupAttribute PKMGAttribute = newReferenceMGDim.Attributes.Add(PKAttribute.AttributeID);
OleDbType PKMGAttributeType = PKAttribute.Attribute.KeyColumns[0].DataType;
PKMGAttribute.KeyColumns.Add(new AMO.DataItem(PKTableName, PKAttribute.AttributeID, PKMGAttributeType));
PKMGAttribute.KeyColumns[0].Source = new AMO.ColumnBinding(PKTableName, PKAttribute.AttributeID);
}
currentMG.Dimensions.Add(newReferenceMGDim);
AMO.ValidationErrorCollection errors = new AMO.ValidationErrorCollection();
newReferenceMGDim.Validate(errors, true);
if (errors.Count > 0)
{
StringBuilder errorMessages = new StringBuilder();
foreach (AMO.ValidationError err in errors)
{
errorMessages.AppendLine(string.Format("At {2}: # {0} : {1}", err.ErrorCode, err.FullErrorText, err.Source));
}
throw new AMO.AmoException(errorMessages.ToString());
}
//Update changes in the server
currentMG.Update(AMO.UpdateOptions.ExpandFull, AMO.UpdateMode.CreateOrReplace);
}
else
{
AMO.ReferenceMeasureGroupDimension currentReferenceMGDim = (AMO.ReferenceMeasureGroupDimension)currentMG.Dimensions[PKTableName];
currentReferenceMGDim.RelationshipID = relationshipID;
currentReferenceMGDim.IntermediateGranularityAttributeID = MVColumnName;
//Update changes in the server
currentMG.Update(AMO.UpdateOptions.ExpandFull, AMO.UpdateMode.UpdateOrCreate);
}
//process MG to activate relationship
currentMG.Process(AMO.ProcessType.ProcessFull);
}
private void setPKColumn(AMO.Database tabularDb, string PKTableName, string PKColumnName)
{
//Find all 'unwanted' Key attributes, remove their Key definitions and include the attributes in the ["RowNumber"].AttributeRelationships
foreach (AMO.DimensionAttribute currentDimAttribute in tabularDb.Dimensions[PKTableName].Attributes)
{
if ((currentDimAttribute.Usage == AMO.AttributeUsage.Key) && (currentDimAttribute.ID != PKColumnName))
{
currentDimAttribute.Usage = AMO.AttributeUsage.Regular;
if (currentDimAttribute.ID != "RowNumber")
{
currentDimAttribute.KeyColumns[0].NullProcessing = AMO.NullProcessing.Preserve;
currentDimAttribute.AttributeRelationships.Clear();
if (!tabularDb.Dimensions[PKTableName].Attributes["RowNumber"].AttributeRelationships.ContainsName(currentDimAttribute.ID))
{
AMO.DimensionAttribute currentAttribute = tabularDb.Dimensions[PKTableName].Attributes[currentDimAttribute.ID];
AMO.AttributeRelationship currentAttributeRelationship = tabularDb.Dimensions[PKTableName].Attributes["RowNumber"].AttributeRelationships.Add(currentAttribute.ID);
currentAttributeRelationship.OverrideBehavior = AMO.OverrideBehavior.None;
}
tabularDb.Dimensions[PKTableName].Attributes["RowNumber"].AttributeRelationships[currentDimAttribute.ID].Cardinality = AMO.Cardinality.Many;
}
}
}
//Remove PKColumnName from ["RowNumber"].AttributeRelationships
int PKAtribRelationshipPosition = tabularDb.Dimensions[PKTableName].Attributes["RowNumber"].AttributeRelationships.IndexOf(PKColumnName);
if (PKAtribRelationshipPosition != -1) tabularDb.Dimensions[PKTableName].Attributes["RowNumber"].AttributeRelationships.RemoveAt(PKAtribRelationshipPosition, true);
//Define PKColumnName as Key and add ["RowNumber"] to PKColumnName.AttributeRelationships with cardinality of One
tabularDb.Dimensions[PKTableName].Attributes[PKColumnName].Usage = AMO.AttributeUsage.Key;
tabularDb.Dimensions[PKTableName].Attributes[PKColumnName].KeyColumns[0].NullProcessing = AMO.NullProcessing.Error;
if (!tabularDb.Dimensions[PKTableName].Attributes[PKColumnName].AttributeRelationships.ContainsName("RowNumber"))
{
AMO.DimensionAttribute currentAttribute = tabularDb.Dimensions[PKTableName].Attributes["RowNumber"];
AMO.AttributeRelationship currentAttributeRelationship = tabularDb.Dimensions[PKTableName].Attributes[PKColumnName].AttributeRelationships.Add(currentAttribute.ID);
currentAttributeRelationship.OverrideBehavior = AMO.OverrideBehavior.None;
}
tabularDb.Dimensions[PKTableName].Attributes[PKColumnName].AttributeRelationships["RowNumber"].Cardinality = AMO.Cardinality.One;
//Update Table before going creating the relationship
tabularDb.Update(AMO.UpdateOptions.ExpandFull, AMO.UpdateMode.UpdateOrCreate);
tabularDb.Dimensions[PKTableName].Process(AMO.ProcessType.ProcessDefault);
}
Ejemplo AMO2Tabular
Sin embargo, para saber cómo usar AMO para crear y manipular representaciones de relación vea el código fuente del ejemplo AMO a tabular. El ejemplo está disponible en Codeplex. Nota importante sobre el código: el código se proporciona solo como apoyo de los conceptos lógicos explicados aquí y no debe utilizarse en un entorno de producción; no debe usarse para otros fines excepto el pedagógico.