TimeXtender Desktop Q&A

Hi,I would like to do a “range lookup”. Because I can't solve it using a conditional lookup, I used a custom field transformation. My code looks like this:CASE    WHEN substring([SBIcode_cleansed], 1, 1) like '[^0-9]' THEN                    (SELECT [kvk_groep_omschrijving]                     FROM  [dsa].[SBIcode_groepering]                             where [SBIcode] = [SBIcode_cleansed]                   ) --'test1'   ELSE                   (SELECT [kvk_groep_omschrijving]                     FROM  [dsa].[SBIcode_groepering]                            where substring([SBIcode_cleansed], 1, 2) >= [min_sbi_code]                              and substring([SBIcode_cleansed], 1, 2) <= [max_sbi_code]                   )--'test2'   END It seems that a subquery is not possible because I get an error message that more than one value is retrieved using the subquery but that is not possible.Testing it in SSMS works fine. (Not using between because above seems to work faster when testing

Until I have started using TX, I am setting up my PBI import datasets using incremental update as you can see in:https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/connect-data/incremental-refresh-overviewNow, in TX, how can this be accomplished?

If you add a new field with the deploy only option, to an existing table with data, there are two diferent behaviors, depending if the table has incremental rule defined or not.This is controled by this setting: By default it’s cleared for “normal” tables and setted to incremental tables.I think the behavior should always be the same or at least get a warning message

I’ve detected that if you have the same table in DSA and MDW. let say DSA.Invoices and MDW.Invoices for example, and you define partition for that, both tables share the same partition schemas and partition functions in the SQL Server database.It’s a problem when you try to add or remove field from whatever table.

When I launch a job directly with the Execute menu option, I get several lines in the execution log without information to know what it is.  

I have created a CSV source in Timextender NG ODX.  The data explorer shows the data type correctly for my table.However, when I drag the table to the DSA, all fields appear as bigint type. (by the way, I have setQuote Character to “  and Row Scan Depth to 0). Any help on how to resolve this issue, would be appreciated.

I discovered that when using the replace transformation with the CharType that you are required to know or look up the int value of the character you want to replace and use that as the parameter.This does not seem to be documented anywhere or be useful in any way I can think of. I assume REPLACE('abc’, char(65), 'b’) is functionally equivalent to REPLACE('abc’, 'a’, 'b’). In a Case Insensitive collation there is no difference between the two anyhow.There is also no COLLATION or binary type support, which are things that you can do with REPLACE() that might actually be useful in certain rare cases. 

I’ve created a custom field in a semantic model table:  But in PBI using a Mixed storage model, it doesn’t works, but if I create the column directly in PBI desktop, it works:  

Hi!We have had our installation for a while now but as far as I’m aware the application has the latest updates. As we are becoming more people in the project working at the same time I have installed the client on both a new server and on my own laptop. The problem is that when I try to connect to the ODX service running on one of our “old” servers I keep getting the error as in the attached pictures. Why is this? As you can see the application has the same version on both thte “old” and the “new” server.The correct ports are opened between the servers at least so that should not be an issue but I get the same error when trying to connect from my laptop. Anyone who has an input on this? 

I’ve a query table created to my D365 F&O data source like you can see in this screenshot: The query returns data as you can see in the query tool (it would be nice to be able to run it in the “Manage Query Tables” window too): But, If try to Synchronize ODX Objects: I get an error and there is not the table if I try to remap it:  And when I deploy and execute the table, it’s empty: Is this a bug or I’m doing something wrong?

Something it’s missing in this phrase:  

As you can see in the next screenshots, the “View execution log” feature doesn’t works correctly: 

Greetings,I have an odd error and trying to eliminate where this issue is coming from.I have a server running SQL server 2016 and TX is running on top of that. The version of TX I am running is 20.10.15.64 in Server 1.The errors I am getting are attached. TX is running ok in Server 1 which is DB server.There is Analysis Server 2 which seems to be an issue and is creating the errors above.The attached error is coming from PowerBI Report Server interface. We are using Microsoft PowerBI tool for our reports. I have increased memory allocation in Server 1 where TX is running and issue seems to still be there.Our products are all 64bit version.Any Idea or view of what could be causing this.  

I am using the 20.10.36.64 desktop version.I am trying to select a provider to connect the SQL server using ODX.I am not seeing any SQL-specific providers here.Which one should I use?  

Trying to connect to DB2 sql server  with 20.10.6.64 but get an error  (NO error message available) that is not documented. Connection is working in another environment. It is not the CDATA connector but DB2 from data source

Hi, Is it possible to add object security rules on a _R table from within TimeXtender?  Thx! 

I would like to share with you this diagram that shows the architecture of our data platform with TX.Perhaps it will be another recomended architectures and I would like to know it and start a discussion about this topic.  

In the semantic model design it’s very common the need to implement role play dimensions.Do you have some guidines about this?

When I remove a MDW-table from the project it remains available in the MDW-database.How do I completely remove the table so I can start over (create a new table using the old name)

We are implementing a data warehouse with data from Dynamics 365 F&O and I’m thinking that we will have money data from UK in pounds and from Spain in euros and we will need currency conversion (based on time) to resolve this situation.Some body has considered this situation?How must it be implemented? 

For one of our clients I need to connect to a database on Amazon Redshift. The IT Vendor who made the system is telling us to use SSL mode Required ( https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/mgmt/connecting-ssl-support.html#connect-using-ssl ). Using this setting in the ODBC connector from Amazon itself works fine but the CData connector only gives a true false dropdown. I've checked if this perhaps was one of those fields where you can overrule the drop down with manual input but that's not the case for this one. Is there any way to get this working in the CData connector or would our only option for now by create DSN and then use the ADO ODBC option the the ODX to connect with the DSN.

If i try to add a dataselection rule my tables stay empty.Tried allready the selection rule on the table and with an without ‘ ‘ If i do the same in the query tool it looks good. Is it a bug?Using version 6143.1

After manually executing a package, where do I find a log that shows the # of rows processed per table?  I'm trying to verify my incremental loads are working properly

The following article describes several types of data masking: https://legacysupport.timextender.com/hc/en-us/articles/5463363539101-Dynamic-Data-Masking .Does TimeXtender allow custom data masking as well? The example table shown at the top of this article is exactly what I am trying to accomplish. However, the article doesn't describe this type of masking, does it?  

Hi Support, Mount Anvil have a Incremental project to run the incremental load of the finance system data. Changing the incremental execution rule on a table called G/L Budget Entry from the 'Modified At' field to the 'Last Date Modified' field is preventing the execution from running. The 'Modified At' field is in a date\time format and the 'Last Date Modified' field is just a date only format that appears to be causing the execution failure. The error messages caused are below: Finished executing project 'Incremental' Execution Package 'Update Project' Execution failed Start Time : 24/01/2023 16:31:05 End Time : 24/01/2023 16:32:33 on server: MAV01APP01 -Execute Execution Package Update Project 'Failed' -Execute Business Units 'Failed' -Execute Business Unit Business Unit 'Failed' -'One or more errors occurred.' -Execute JetBCStage_I 'Failed' -'One or more errors occurred.' -Execute Table JetBCStage_I TEST.BC_G/L Entry (17) 'Successful' -Execute Table JetBCStage_I TEST.RowCountGL 'Su