Snowflake Schema without intermediary dimensions - 2008r2

  • Situation:

    I am currently working on a 2008r2 Analysis Services project in which I have no control over the Data Source structure. Please do not inform me to refine the database as it is not an option.

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    Current Structure:

    Table A:

    Table A contains a key and some dimensions such as gender, race

    Table B:

    Table B contains the same keys as table A (there are duplicates of these keys, intentionally), Dates, and measures. This table has duplicate keys but unique records because the date distinguishes different times in the year a person came to our business.

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    Goal:

    I am trying to create a cube in which these two tables are joined. I would like to see how many times a person of a certain gender (Table A.dimension) came into my shop for a oil change (Table B.measure) in a certain month (Table B.date)

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    Attempts:

    My only success was to make an intermediate dimension that had the keys and join the dimensions to measure groups on a referenced type of relationship. Data looked good, but the size of my cube became to large because there are so many records. I was able to complete this action in Analysis Services 2000 and am unsure why it is so difficult in BIDS.

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    Can anyone please help?

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