Showing posts with label geographical. Show all posts
Showing posts with label geographical. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Geographical realignment dimension

I have a fact table filled with clients including their address information as well as their original geographical alignment info (RegionID, DistrictID and TerritoryID). In order to forecast as well as perform an “as if” analysis, I need to be able to realign the accounts based on previous or future alignments. I have an alignment table (dimension) that maintains alignment information by year and quarter and I can join to this table using the ClientAddressID field as well as the Year and Quarter fields. I’d like to be able to make the Year and Quarter fields/join be variable so that I can perform realignments simply by changing the year/quarter.

Is this possible in SSAS or am I going to have to find another solution? Any help will be greatly appreciated...

David

I resolved this using a many to many relationship. This write-up was very useful: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms170463.aspx

David

Geographical realignment dimension

I have a fact table filled with clients including their address information as well as their original geographical alignment info (RegionID, DistrictID and TerritoryID). In order to forecast as well as perform an “as if” analysis, I need to be able to realign the accounts based on previous or future alignments. I have an alignment table (dimension) that maintains alignment information by year and quarter and I can join to this table using the ClientAddressID field as well as the Year and Quarter fields. I’d like to be able to make the Year and Quarter fields/join be variable so that I can perform realignments simply by changing the year/quarter.

Is this possible in SSAS or am I going to have to find another solution? Any help will be greatly appreciated...

David

I resolved this using a many to many relationship. This write-up was very useful: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms170463.aspx

David

sql

Geographical data in SQL Server

Hi,
Is there any way to use SQL server to store and query geographical data? For
example, be able to query all the records that fall withing certain
geographical poligon defined by lat/lon coordinates?
Thanks.
You're talking about GIS. You could store the data in SQL but you're
probably going to use MapInfo or ArcInfo to perform the geographical
queries..
Tim Heap
Software & Database Manager
POSTAR Ltd
www.postar.co.uk
tim@.postar.co.uk
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Geographical data in SQL Server

Hi,
Is there any way to use SQL server to store and query geographical data? For
example, be able to query all the records that fall withing certain
geographical poligon defined by lat/lon coordinates?
Thanks.You're talking about GIS. You could store the data in SQL but you're
probably going to use MapInfo or ArcInfo to perform the geographical
queries..
Tim Heap
Software & Database Manager
POSTAR Ltd
www.postar.co.uk
tim@.postar.co.uk
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