Few years ago on my blog I posted scripts “SSIS Package to drop/create partitions based on partition list in the SQL Server table” and “SSIS package that process all partitions/measure groups/cubes in one database“. These posts contained partial scripts that I developed for company “Insight Decision Solutions Inc.” to maintain partitions in the Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services. This company sells, customizes and implements pre-packaged data warehouse solution (using SQL Server, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, SharePoint and Excel 2007) for “Life” and “Health” insurance companies. Recently “Insight Decision Solutions Inc.” owners let me post full script on how to automate SSAS partition management . Here are step by step instructions that I adjusted and tested on Adventure Works database. Most of the code comes from my earlier published posts, here I just added information how everything works together.
When I execute the code I get the following error:
Error: System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. —> System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast COM object of type ‘System.__ComObject’ to class type ‘System.Data.DataSet’. Instances of types that represent COM components cannot be cast to types that do not represent COM components; however they can be cast to interfaces as long as the underlying COM component supports QueryInterface calls for the IID of the interface.
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