I have two dimensions
Contact and Sales and fact table
fact table contains following attributes
OrderDate,TotalDue,TaxAmt,SubTotal,Freight
My Source table does not contain any Time table.I want to add Time dimension and want to aggregate the data on based on year,semister,quater wise etc
I have done this using some tricks i am not sure whether i am correct or wrong
What i did
1. Right Click on Dimension
2.Add New Dimension
3.Selected 'Generate a time table in the Data Source'
4.Selected First calender day(Jan 1 2001) and Last Calender Day(31 Dec 2004) since Sales Table contains Orderdate starting from 2001 to 2004
5.Selected all the Time Periods
6.Created Time Dimension
7.Added this to existing data source view and made Date as Primary Key and linked toOrderDate attribute in Sales
8.Done the same thing in the attribute relationship tab
For my happiness it worked very well and aggregation i am getting accordingly verified in the data base with SQL statements
So my question is did i made the right relation ship with Sales
table and whatever steps i followed is fine?
Please let me know i am relatively new to SSAS. Any advice or suggestions are appreciated