Re: Error processing cube with disabled lowest level of shared dimension



I use the same technique you describe quite often, however, I've never
come across the error message you described if the error condition
wasn't really there.


SRL wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is probably a classic scenario with a shared dimension that we
> need to use in different cubes, where all fact tables do not offer
the
> same level of detail. Dimension is snow-flaked.
>
> The cube that's causing me troubles was designed by marking the
lowest
> dimension level Diabled and not Visible. This allows me to get rid of
> one of the snow-flake tables (the one with the lowest level), thus
> allowing an INNER JOIN with the remaining table which has a level of
> detail corresponding to the fact table.
>
> When processing the cube, I get a 'member with key '[blah]' was found
> in the fact table but was not found in the level '[blah]' of the
> dimension '[blah]'' that seems to indicate that none of my fact
foreign
> keys exist as primary keys in the dimension table. However if I then
> attempt to query the cube, all data seems to be there.
>
> Would anybody be in a position (and willing ;-)) to share his/her own
> experience working around a similar issue? Do the error messages even
> matter in that particular case?
>
> Thanks,
>
> SRL

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