TimeXtender Desktop Q&A

How do I tell TimeXtender to use a clustered columnstore index for my fact table in Azure Synapse?

How can I execute a stored procedure once a load of a table is done. I know it should be possible. I just don't know where I should configure it  

Hi, We use TX as a part of our value chain of systems using data. We need to programatically be able to check if the execution is done, so the following jobs can start.I know TX can send an email when completed, but we really do not want to build the check on emails. Does anyone have a good idea on how to do this? Hope you can help. Best regards Michael Vaisgaard

Hi, I have to do something like this in TX: If productno > 0 then 'Product A' else lookup in table productnames I cannot figure out how to do this in TX. Hope someone can help. Best regards Michael Vaisgaard

I get the followinf error after transferring the latest version van OT to A environment and full managed deployment: Finished executing project 'RobidusDWH' Execution Package 'Laden ACC' Execution failed Start Time : 4/3/2020 7:16:52 AM End Time : 4/3/2020 7:25:01 AM on server: WIN6682 -Execute Execution Package Laden ACC 'Failed'                Invalid object name 'HDA_V_DMA.DM_HDA_HDA_V_DMA_Feit_OpenstaandeTaken_DMA_DMA_Feit_OpenstaandeTaken_T'.                               Details:                               SQL Server: 'cf15a5af617c.tr6225.westeurope1-a.worker.database.windows.net,11009'                SQL Procedure: 'DMA_TX.usp_CrDM_DMA_TX_Feit_OpenstaandeTaken_HDA_HDA_V_DMA_Feit_OpenstaandeTaken'                SQL Line Number: 12                SQL Error Number: 208                               Invalid object name 'HDA_V_DMA.DM_HDA_HDA_V_DMA_Feit_OpenstaandeTaken_DMA_DMA_Feit_Opens

Hi, I am trying to find out how i can schedule deployment from development server to integration server at a particular time on everyday. So, whatever changes I am making in the development will be deployed automatically to integration server. Please let me know in case any one has idea regarding the same. For clarification please ask.

Hi, Is it possible to extract data from an Azure Service Bus into TX?

Hi, Is there any development on creating a connector to upload data to Google Storage Bucket or Google BigQuery?My bestAlfreð

I'm currently migrating an Azure MI solution to ADLS Gen2 and Synapse Analytics. The migration includes remapping all DSA table ... instead of using an old ODX, DSA will now use an ADLS Gen2 on ODX Server. Mapping tables bring all data source fields across ... it would be nice to have the usual option to only synchronize existing fields as it's a lot of fields to delete when getting the entire data source table.

Getting the following error while connect to AASCould not connect to the Tabular server.Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.AnalysisServices.Tabular, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.Is there a way to solve this?

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 quer

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.