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  • Ana RM

    Re: PROBLEM WITH DISCOVERER JOINS

    Mark.Powell@eds .com (Mark D Powell) wrote in message news:<2687bb95. 0308010642.1fc4 ff1f@posting.go ogle.com>...
    ana@semicrol.es (Ana RM) wrote in message news:<a392afb6. 0308010137.7d25 e539@posting.go ogle.com>...
    Hi everybody!!

    I had implemented a datawarehouse based on star squema. I have
    dimensions, facts and relational tables.So I want to joins then in
    Discoverer.

    The situation is the following: I have 2 dimensions and one fact table
    and one relational table. The problem is that I cannot take objets
    from the fact table and the relational table at the same time, because
    both of them are joined with the 2 dimensions: relational table is
    join to one Dimension1 element and the fact table is joined to another
    element of the same dimension, so happens with Dimension2.

    I worked on Bussiness Objects and contexts solved that problem. Do you
    know how to do it in Discoverer?

    Thanks for your help in advance,

    Ana
    >
    Ana, to be honest I do not fully understand your problem as I do not
    work on a warehouse and have no experience with Business Objects, but
    I have had to help people resolve complex joins in Discoverer. If the
    problem can be solved using SQL in the database then what I have found
    is often helpful is to create views in the database to handle some of
    these tasks. The views are then referenced by the Discoverer users.
    Joins between the views can be setup to help handle more complex
    relationships. If logic is required to solve the problem then
    Discoverer is probably not the tool to use to see the data.
    >
    HTH -- Mark D Powell --

    Hi Mark,

    Thanks por answer me. I do not think it is important thw warehouse
    knowledge to solve my problem because at the end all the tables are
    relational.

    The point is that I do not want make changes in the database, I want
    work only with Discoverer to solve this problem. Perhaps I could do
    something in the EUL with complex folders and creating calcules but it
    does not work.

    Any idea about doing it with complex folders and calcules?

    Thanks you,

    Ana
  • Mark D Powell

    #2
    Re: PROBLEM WITH DISCOVERER JOINS

    ana@semicrol.es (Ana RM) wrote in message news:<a392afb6. 0308040313.b43f 95b@posting.goo gle.com>...
    Mark.Powell@eds .com (Mark D Powell) wrote in message news:<2687bb95. 0308010642.1fc4 ff1f@posting.go ogle.com>...
    ana@semicrol.es (Ana RM) wrote in message news:<a392afb6. 0308010137.7d25 e539@posting.go ogle.com>...
    Hi everybody!!
    >
    I had implemented a datawarehouse based on star squema. I have
    dimensions, facts and relational tables.So I want to joins then in
    Discoverer.
    >
    The situation is the following: I have 2 dimensions and one fact table
    and one relational table. The problem is that I cannot take objets
    from the fact table and the relational table at the same time, because
    both of them are joined with the 2 dimensions: relational table is
    join to one Dimension1 element and the fact table is joined to another
    element of the same dimension, so happens with Dimension2.
    >
    I worked on Bussiness Objects and contexts solved that problem. Do you
    know how to do it in Discoverer?
    >
    Thanks for your help in advance,
    >
    Ana
    Ana, to be honest I do not fully understand your problem as I do not
    work on a warehouse and have no experience with Business Objects, but
    I have had to help people resolve complex joins in Discoverer. If the
    problem can be solved using SQL in the database then what I have found
    is often helpful is to create views in the database to handle some of
    these tasks. The views are then referenced by the Discoverer users.
    Joins between the views can be setup to help handle more complex
    relationships. If logic is required to solve the problem then
    Discoverer is probably not the tool to use to see the data.

    HTH -- Mark D Powell --
    >
    >
    Hi Mark,
    >
    Thanks por answer me. I do not think it is important thw warehouse
    knowledge to solve my problem because at the end all the tables are
    relational.
    >
    The point is that I do not want make changes in the database, I want
    work only with Discoverer to solve this problem. Perhaps I could do
    something in the EUL with complex folders and creating calcules but it
    does not work.
    >
    Any idea about doing it with complex folders and calcules?
    >
    Thanks you,
    >
    Ana
    << Previously sent as email <<

    I do not administer Discoverer so I am not sure of the details, but a
    complex folder is where you define two tables and a join between them.
    The users can then query against the folder so it is basically a view
    held within Discoverer. The manuals should cover how to create them
    if there is no wizard or the wizard is not very helpful.

    If you can write the queries, but have problems creating the complex
    folders I would reconsider just creating a view in the DB.

    -- Mark D Powell --

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