I am working on a SSAS tabular model in Visual Studio which I have imported from our SSAS server.
I have noticed that at the top I can select process - process full, table etc..
Just wondering, do these only process the model stored in my visual studio? And not the model that is live on the server? I can't find anything online that specifies this..
Yes, it only processes the one shown in Visual Studio (called workspace version):
Model menu can be used to... ...process workspace data...
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/analysis-services/tabular-models/tabular-model-designer-ssas?view=asallproducts-allversions#menu-items
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In Visual Studio 2017, I can not make relations between tables using database diagram.
How to open database diagram in Visual Studio 2017?
Database diagrams in xsd format can be opened in Visual Studio.
I Created and worked with Database Diagram xsd format using Visual Studio 2019 (can do same in VS 2017) in the following manner: -
Open Visual Studio and create a new C# console application (you can also use VB)
Go to “Solution Explorer” and right click on the Project and choose Add > New Item from sub-menu
from the pop up window, choose Visual C# project type as "Data" and select Dataset
Select main menu View > SQL Server Object Explorer to connect and view the desired SQL database objects.
Connect using credentials to view database objects like Views, tables etc.
To draw the database diagram, drag the required tables to the Dataset Pane
As per this similar question on MSDN, the database diagrams have been deprecated after Visual Studio 2012.
The answer there provides two workarounds:
You can use SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to work with Database diagrams, here is a download link.
You can add a item (ADO.NET Entity Data Model) to project, it will create for you a .edmx file which contains a table with relation. More in here.
I have none experience with SSAS, I had this cube working perfectly…
The underlying tables that it was using were from a database, let’s call it ‘ABCD’. The problem is, that for other reasons ABCD database had to be split in ‘AB and ‘CD. Half the tables have been migrated to AB and the other half to CD. In my mind I want to open something as ALTER, edit the DB name, and everything would work as before, but SSAS is a bit of a black box for me; can I achieve this?
I know I can just access ABCD and create views to AB and CD and mask my problem, but I would really love to know how to modify the scripts that build the cube….
My recommendation is to just add views into the AB database which point to the tables which have moved to the CD database. Then you can edit the data source from Management Studio and point it to the AB database. (You just connect Object Explorer to Analysis Services, expand down to the database, expand to the Data Source, then double click to edit.)
If that's not an option then you can change the cube source code as follows...
I'm assuming it's a Multidimensional cube, not Tabular. If you already have Visual Studio and SSDT installed, great. Otherwise, install the latest SSDT which runs in Visual Studio 2015 as it's backwards compatible.
In SQL Server Management Studio, connect Object Explorer to Analysis Services and then right click on the database and choose Backup.
In Visual Studio, File... Open... Analysis Services Database. You are editing the cube "source code" live now. As soon as you save a change it will deploy it to the server.
Double click the data source and fix the connection string. Make sure it's using a version of the driver that's on the SSAS server. Point it to the AB database.
Then double click the DSV. In the tables list on the left, right click on each table which was moved to the CD database and choose Replace Table... With New Named Query. Click the "Switch to Generic Query Builder" button and then edit the query to look something like:
select *
from CD.dbo.YourTable
Click Save.
Then go back to Management Studio, right click the database and choose Process. Do a Full Process on the database. It should succeed and be up to date.
It is possible to reverse engineer a deployed SSAS database. The above assumes that's not important to you. But if you need to do this, in Visual Studio do File... New Project... Templates... Business Intelligence... Analysis Services... Import From Server (Multidimensional and Data Mining).
Can you tell me how I can generate an ER diagram for my database1 (see below) created with VS 2015
Thanks in advance
Ensure you installed either Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools or Microsoft Web Developer Tools in order to get the Entity Data Model Designer.
These are the steps to generate entity relationship diagram. It was tested in VS2012
Open Visual Studio
Create a project or open an existing project
(must be Visual Basic, Visual C# project, or Console Application)
Right-click the project and choose Add -> New Item…
Under Visual C# Items select “Data”
Select the template “ADO.NET Entity Data Model”
Give it a name and click “Add”
Select “Generate from database” or “Empty model”
If “Generate from database” selected enter connection
info, choose the database objects and done!
The model is stored as a “.edmx” file.
With Visual Studio you can create a static diagram (class diagram) but not entity relationship diagrams (for you DB).
You will have to use another tool for this. For SQL server you can use SQL server Management Studio.
DB Objects in the editor will be related as in Diagram so Just relate objects in the Db and drag to editor.
I have just downloaded Visual Studio Code (for OS X) and I wanted to try and create a simple REST API server to test out all possibilities. I can't seem to find how to create a SQL database.
Do I need to create one in another application? If so, how?
Visual Studio Code is not a fully featured IDE like Visual Studio. It does not support tasks such as creating databases or viewing them from within the App. If you want create a database, refer to the docs of the database provider for your target platform.
As for the REST API server, Visual Studio Code can be great help - specially if you are using ASP.Net 5 or node.
How can I create a diagram in visual studio 2012 like this one
In SQL Server Management Studio...
You'll get a popup about "support objects required for database diagramming". Click Yes
In Visual Studio 2012 you can create a windows app project or web app project and add a new item in your solution's project called an 'Ado.net Entity Data Model" You can then import a model from an existing database or create your own model.