Comments on: WSH Scripting for Analysis Services 2005

By: Simon Deslauriers

Simon Deslauriers — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:17:12 +0000

Wow Vidas, thanks for the vbs script!

I can’t imagine that Microsoft did not offers us anything to list processed/unprocessed cubes like in SQL2000 Analysis manager.

I’ll also try ASSP but i am a BI consultant working on multiple different clients and I dont like the fact of “installing” third party tools/code to achieve a so basic needs, however, i’ll try theses SP right now!

Thanks again!

Simon Deslauriers

By: Jonathan Hicks

Jonathan Hicks — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:53:45 +0000

I found the examples on this site very useful, I like to make use of vbscript as well so that I can have a lot of control over formatting etc.., however, i am trying to add partition proactive caching settings to an automated build script for production depoyments, currently i’m using the following mdx query…

CALL ASSP.discoverXmlMetaData(”Partition\ProactiveCaching”)

which returns valuable information, I need to be able to return this information to the relational side of sql server using an olap linked server… it seems like the CALL ASSP. etc.. is returning the information in a tuple format, does anyone have any examples on how to get a 2 dimensional result set that I can query within a normal stored proc to look for a given value in a given field? will sp_prepare_xml work? (might be spelling that wrong (basically the xml proc that turns xml into a table))

thanks,

Jonathan Hicks

By: Vidas Matelis

Vidas Matelis — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:53:55 +0000

Andreau,

Thank you very much for your suggestion on using c:\windows]syswow64\cscript.exe for script execution. This works!
Also, I added link to text files with script. This issue with double quotes is related to software I use to publish blog. I double checked my code, and even source code has simple double quotes, wordpress shows them as different quotes and this of course will cause problems for script.

Thanks again!

By: Vidas Matelis

Vidas Matelis — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:50:03 +0000

Darren,

I have not tried ASSP yet, but I’ll try to install and review this option latter.

By: Andreau

Andreau — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:36:00 +0000

Hi, sorry my previouse commet was wrong because it is opposite.
In order to run succesffuly your .vbs you have to use the c:\windows\syswow64\cscript.exe and not the defualt one under c:\windows\system32.

Further can you use a different editor when publish the script or code. In above sample the “quote” ” and not ” are wrong. Keep your eyes open if your use Office 2007

By: Andreau

Andreau — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:12:04 +0000

Hi,
on x64bit enviromnent when run cscript.exe by default is used the 32bit enviroment and not the 64bit. try use the exact path c:\windows\system32\cscript.exe

By: Darren Gosbell

Darren Gosbell — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:12:53 +0000

Sorry I forgot to add that you would need to install ASSP http://www.codeplex.com/ASStoredProcedures if you don’t already have it.

By: Darren Gosbell

Darren Gosbell — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:11:40 +0000

Have you seen what you can do with the discover stored procedures I wrote for the Analysis Services Stored Procedure project?

Try running the following from an MDX window in SSMS.

// Will list all the database on the server
CALL ASSP.DiscoverXMLMetaDataFull(”\Databases\Database”);
GO
/* Will list the details of all the cube objects in the current database */
CALL ASSP.DiscoverXMLMetaData(”Database\Cubes\Cube”);
GO
/* will list all the details of all the partition objects in the current database */
CALL ASSP.DiscoverXMLMetaData(”Partition”);
GO
/* will list all the details of all the partition objects in the current database
along with the name, state and lastProcess details for the relevant cubes. */
CALL ASSP.discoverXmlMetaData(”\Database\Cubes\Cube|Name,State,LastProcessed,LastUpdated\MeasureGroups\MeasureGroup\Partitions\Partition”);