TimeXtender Desktop Q&A

The TX oracle connector drops and creates the complete table during export. Is there a way that we can control this behaviour and the table be not dropped ? This is because we need to move data from Staging Orcle to Main tables based on Triggers and if the table is dropped by TX then the trigger is of no use.

How to write 'case' in Custom SQL, please let me know with example. Here is the situation (SQL query) that I need to perform on Date table & likes to update 'IND' column where DateValue is default column in Date table selectcase when GETDATE()<=DateValue then 'N' else 'Y' end as 'IND' ,* from <table_name> order by DateValue desc

Can you pass project variable values at run time via the command line? We need to trigger the package and pass on user defined variable values that has been used in the package creation. Like a date that a user can pass whenever he intends to run a package.

So based on what I'm reading about TX, it seems to me that even if only say 5 records changed on a source file, TX loads the entire source table into a Raw table (all 40 gigs of it) and then finds the 5 records.Is there a way to get it to just pull the 5 changed records into TX?  My incremental executions seem to take about 50% of the time of a full execution even though there is little to no data change.

Example scenario:Table DimProject has 2 mappings, each from a different source:Mapping 1 = SourceA.ProjectMapping 2 = SourceB.ProjectNow both systems will have the same project number with different meanings.My question is how do I make a transformation that returns 'A' + [project number] in mapping 1 and 'B' + [project number] in mapping 2.The solution needs be rely on explicitly meaningful conditions, no implicit conditions that drive people crazy trying to decipher what they are for somewhere in the future.Any ideas?

Hello,one of several incremental tables won't execute. upon execution the transfer fails stating "invalid column name " & name of the incremental column.The problem occurred in Version 19.2.7.64 and is still present after an upgrade and redeployment to Version 19.11.7.64.What I tried so far. I tried to change the column from Incremntal_date to id.Redeployed the full table configuration.Upgraded to Version 19.11.7.64.Help is much appreciated. Best regardsPeter 

How can a parent-child hierarchy be historicized using parent DW_Ids?

Just for anybody interested: I just found out that you just update the _I table to some older values, to reload all data greater than the value you set. Previously, I always reloaded the full table in these cases. This is not necessary and saves me some time from now on.

When I am using the Single text file and I am loading a csv file, TX replaces and removes the file to the Backup folder as specified. The filename before load:  E:\BAG\CoordinatenBAG2019.csv And the filename after loading:  E:\BAG\CoordinatenBAG2019__20191105_163142_ Now I have to rename the file every time i want to do a reload. How can I prevent this?  

Hello,I have the following setup for an incrementally loaded table:I would expect, that it loads all rows, with either an id greater than max id - 1000 or datum_post greater than max datum_post - one week.In fact, when I execute the query, it is not returning any rows. This is interesting, because removing the datum_post condition returns rows.Other tables with such a double condition (id + date) also work. I am wondering, whether it is necessary to have an index on datum_post in the source table? The queries can take quite a while on the datum_post field. The example query takes 2 minutes on the source database, but TimeXtender finishes after 30 seconds. TimeXtender says it is finished with "Success", but there are no rows.Also the following query yields results when querying the source database directly: I think this is the equivalent query to what TimeXtender should load.I am using Discovery Hub 19.6.7.64 and the source database is using (an old) mysql version: I am connecting with

Hi, i've setup a MDW layer with proper relations between tables. At this point I wanted to create a relation diagriam to visualise to my client the relation between his entities. my tool of choice was SQL Management Studio. Only then i've realised that TimeXtender only create DW_Id as physical primary key and the relations between tables are managed internally Is there a way in TimeXtender to visualize the relations between the tables? I've already put my vote here  

We want to delete the data in TimeXtender after a period of 5 years because of the GDPR legislation . Is there a possibility to get this handled by TimeXtender?

Hello, Since a couple of days I created a second execution package to execute +- 10 tables, some dimension and 1 cube. After this execution the other cubes are not reachable, I need to deploy and execute them all to get it solved. Any clue why an execution pack would block access ? Thanks, Ronny

Hi,I am trying to build a transformation process in TX based on the following SQL code.------------------------------------------SELECT distinct[BusinessEntityID],B.MonthKey,[StartDate],[EndDate],[DepartmentName]FROM [TX_DSA].[dbo].[EmployeeDepartmentHistory] Ajoin dbo.Calendar B ON B.Date >= A.StartDatewhere b.DateValue >= a.StartDate AND (a.EndDate is null or a.EndDate <= b.DateValue)----------------------------------------------------I want intentionally to expand the grain of table A. I tried different Joins and conditional lookups but I just can't reproduce the output.How would you solve this?Thanks in advancegrJose

I am joining 2 tables T1 and T2 based on a condition T1.A = T2.BT1.A have values like 'wNFq' and T2.B have values like 'WNFQ', 'wnfQ', 'WnFq', 'wNFq'For a regular join a particular row of 'wNFq' from T1 gets joined with all values: 'WNFQ', 'wnfQ','WnFq' and 'wNFq' of T2My intention is to join only 'wNFq' from T1 to 'wNFq'.I achieved the same using custom SQL insert and using the below  COLLATE function to join based on case sensitive sequencing using:T1.A COLLATE Latin1_General_CS_AS_KS_WS = T2.B COLLATE Latin_1_General_CS_AS_KS_WSWandering if there is a different way to achieve this avoiding custom SQL.Appreciate any help on the same. 

Created a conditional lookup based on following : T1 joined to T2 where T1.A = T2.B Looked up T2.C based on the above join condition and stored the value in T1.D Now I need to filter the resultant data set which is on T1 based on certain values of T1.D Unable to put that filter in the Table Data Selection Rule. Even I tried to copy T1.D(look up filed) to T1.E (a separate filed created just to hold the value of T1.D) and filter on T1.E, even that did not work. Appreciate help on the same.

I have the following set of tables: A (key1, key2) B (key2, key3) In that case, every key1 can have multiple key2 attributes in table A and every key2 can have multiple key3 attribues in table B. When I would use a conditional lookup field for table A to get key3, it would only give me one of the key3 attribues, is it possible to take all values? I know I could do it with a simple custom view left joining on key2, but is there are recommended way to do it in Discovery Hub without custom views? So the goal table should be like C (key1, key2, key3)

Dear TimeXtender's Team,What is choice to setting rounding in TimeXtender if we want to set up decimal ? Like example .. in Original Data is $12,3456, we just want the result is $12,34 (2 decimal)because in TX, it will be $12,35Thank you,

In one of my single text files is a field which is actually a GML field. When i'm trying to deploy and execute this field as varchar(4000) it gives me the following error: 'string or binary data would be truncated' So I wanted to override data type vut this seems to be impossible when your data source is a single text file. So I tried something else, i made an Excel file of my csv file and read objects from data source as Excel, but then my GML field isn't even visible in the data selection tab. is there another possible way to insert my GML file in TimeXtender without getting an error?

I'm trying to create a hierarchy of GL accounts and the category they belong to. (i.e. Assets, Liabilities, Equity, Income Expenses).However the Hierarchy is displaying alphabetically.  If it were to be sorted by the first GL account it's associated with, it would sort correctly since GL accounts are numbered in the proper sequence.However, when I tell the Dimension, "Parent Category" (which is the Assets, Liabilities etc) to sort by Attribute Key, when I deploy I get an error saying it can't be used as an attribute because it is not related.Is there a workaround to this?

Hi guys,Can someone elaborate the different options of table truncation? I can't really find it in the help or e-learning. We have set up an incremental load on a large table in the ODX, initially in simple mode. We found that the data after deployment & execution exists in the valid table and in the raw table, occupying twice the available storage of the original table size. We then disabled simple mode and checked the truncate raw table before transfer. I now still see some records (not all of them) in the raw table. I guess I'll have to check "Empty raw table after data cleansing" to completely empty the raw table after reloading, but I can't really grasp the difference between these options. 

Hi TX Support,I wanna know how to implementing scalar function with COALESCE in TX ? Here I attach the function, could you please tell me how to do that?USE [QAD_DATA]GO/****** Object: UserDefinedFunction [dbo].[GetAliasesByWo1] Script Date: 03/20/2018 16:15:04 ******/SET ANSI_NULLS ONGOSET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ONGOALTER FUNCTION [dbo].[GetAliasesByWo1](@item nvarchar(max),@length float,@catego nvarchar(max),@opt nvarchar(max))RETURNS varchar(max)ASBEGINdeclare @output varchar(max)select @output = COALESCE(@output + ', ', '') + wo_lot + '=' + convert(nvarchar, wo_qty_ord)FROM wo_mstr_datawhere wo_part = @item andwo__dec01 = @length andwo__chr01 = @catego andRIGHT(wo_rmks,1) = @opt andwo_status = 'R' andSUBSTRING(wo_routing,1,6) = 'REWORK'return @outputEND 

Hi community,We are trying to get a csv. file as a data source in the Discovery Hub.We've tried the 'Edit single text file', but when we import the columns, it doesn't give us the data in these columns.You got any idea how to handle these csv. files in the Discovery Hub?

HI  I am having a OLAP cube and a standard measure which needs to be in hh:mm format. currently the number is coming in float. Guidance much appreciated.

Hi,I have a source table in Navision which contains inventory data. The data is sometimes changed back in time due to miscellaneous reasons. I have so far handled this with change tracking in Sql Server and then I do a merge statement that either inserts new data or does an update on older data already in the fact table.So my question is how could I handle this in TX and do a incremental load?Regards Birkir