Dimension Class

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
  Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Warehouse.CloneableItem
    Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Warehouse.NamedItem
      Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Warehouse.ContainerItem
        Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Warehouse.Dimension

Namespace:  Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Warehouse
Assembly:  Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Warehouse (in Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Warehouse.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Class Dimension _
    Inherits ContainerItem

public class Dimension : ContainerItem

public ref class Dimension : public ContainerItem

type Dimension =  
    class 
        inherit ContainerItem 
    end

public class Dimension extends ContainerItem

The Dimension type exposes the following members.

Constructors

	Name	Description
	Dimension

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Properties

	Name	Description
	AttributeHierarchyEnabledDefault
	CompressKeyField	Whether page compression should be applied to the key field. (Inherited from ContainerItem.)
	CompressSurrogateKeyField	Whether page compression should be applied to the surrogate key field. (Inherited from ContainerItem.)
	DimensionUses	(Inherited from ContainerItem.)
	Fields	(Inherited from ContainerItem.)
	FriendlyName	The Friendly Name. (Inherited from NamedItem.)
	GenerateAnalysisSchema	Whether to generate / update analysis database schema based on this metadata. (Inherited from ContainerItem.)
	GenerateETL	Should this item be included in the auto-generated ETL for the relational warehouse? If it is not included a stored procedure will not be generated to populate this item. (Inherited from ContainerItem.)
	GenerateWarehouseSchema	Whether to generate warehouse schema based on this metadata. (Inherited from ContainerItem.)
	HandleDuplicateKeys	Whether the logic for adding entries to the database should expect entries with duplicate keys and handle them in some appropriate way. (Inherited from ContainerItem.)
	IncludeUpdatesInIncrementalCubeProcessing	Whether to mark this object as updated for incremental cube processing when an existing row is updated, *other* than to set its initial values if it was originally inserted as an early-arriving entry. Setting this false means that added rows will still propagate to the cube, but updates (except updates to early-arriving entries) will not propagate until the next Full cube process. This is tactically useful when this object, or objects that depend on it, are large enough that we want to avoid Analysis Services ProcessUpdate / ProcessFull which query all rows from the warehouse. Note: We do not support this attribute that has dimensions that reference area / iteration and use area/iteration forwarding, because it wasn't needed and to be conservative in Ask mode. Currently the only such dimension is DimWorkItem, which is not in metadata but may be in the future.
	KeyField	(Inherited from ContainerItem.)
	KeyFieldName	(Inherited from ContainerItem.)
	Levels
	Name	(Inherited from NamedItem.)
	NameFieldName	Name of field that contains main display name for entity, such as for building paths. Currently required only if PathFieldName is set.
	NamingTemplate	Optional naming template to use for this dimension in the cube. This is only useful for hierarchies. Format: {Level 0};{Level 1};...
	OrderByField
	ParentField
	ParentFieldName	Name of field that contains business / op store key of parent entity. Currently, this value does not have to be persisted in the dimension, but is used to pass the parent key to the sproc, in order to set the parent surrogate key.
	ParentIdFriendlyName
	ParentSurrogateKeyFieldName
	PathFieldName	Optional name of field that should be set to the hierarchical path of the entity, by concatenating name values.
	PerformUpdateChecks	Whether to perform an equality check on all fields before deciding to update them. Uses the database collation when it compares string fields, which uses case-insensitive for TFS. Therefore, will usually *not* propagate case changes. (Inherited from ContainerItem.)
	PerformUpdateChecksCaseSensitive	Whether to perform an equality check on all fields before deciding to update them, and use case-sensitive checks on string fields so case changes are propagated. (Inherited from ContainerItem.)
	SurrogateKeyAdjustTimeZone
	SurrogateKeyField	(Inherited from ContainerItem.)
	SurrogateKeyFieldName	Name of field that stores warehouse-specific ("surrogate") key. Defaults to "__ID" for backward compatibility, although in new metadata we expect it to always be set explicitly. (Inherited from ContainerItem.)
	SurrogateKeyFieldType	Database type of surrogate key, uses INT by default.
	Translation	(Inherited from NamedItem.)

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Methods

	Name	Description
	AddField	(Inherited from ContainerItem.)
	Clone	(Inherited from CloneableItem.)
	Equals	Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object. (Inherited from Object.)
	Finalize	Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetField	(Inherited from ContainerItem.)
	GetHashCode	Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetType	Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
	IsWellFormed	(Overrides ContainerItem.IsWellFormed().)
	MemberwiseClone	Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
	ShouldSerializeDimensionUses	(Inherited from ContainerItem.)
	ShouldSerializeFields	(Inherited from ContainerItem.)
	ShouldSerializeLevels
	ShouldSerializeTranslation	(Inherited from NamedItem.)
	ToString	Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.)
	TryRemoveField	Remove the field that has the specified name. (Inherited from ContainerItem.)

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Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

See Also

Reference

Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Warehouse Namespace