Microsoft KB Archive/820358

= FIX: A Lazy Aggregation Might Fail After an Incremental Update of a Changing Dimension =

Article ID: 820358

Article Last Modified on 11/21/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services
 * Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services

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BUG #: 13997 (Plato7x)



SYMPTOMS
A lazy aggregation might fail and you receive the following error message, after Analysis Services performs an incremental update of a changing dimension:

Error during lazy aggregation of partition xxxxx in cube xxxxx

This error message is logged in the application event log.

After Analysis Services performs an incremental update of a changing dimension, it deletes the existing aggregations and indexes for the cubes that contain that changing dimension. Then, it rebuilds the aggregations and indexes in the background. The rebuild is required because members in a changing dimension may move positions in the dimension hierarchy during an incremental update.

The error message shown earlier in the article indicates that Analysis Services did not rebuild aggregations and indexes.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem you can either:  Perform a full process of cubes after an incremental update of changing dimensions.

-or- Perform an incremental update of changing dimensions by using the FullReaggregate option.

The FullReaggregate option is a new functionality in SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services Service Pack 3.

For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

325289 FIX: New Functionality for Incremental Update of Changing Dimensions





Service pack information
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

290211 How to obtain the latest SQL Server 2000 service pack

SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services
The English version of this fix has the file attributes (or later) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in coordinated universal time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel.   Date         Time     Version    Size             File name 17-Apr-2003 01:29    8.0.806.0    217,668 bytes  Msmdcb80.dll 29-Apr-2003 18:39    8.0.0.815  4,055,616 bytes  Msmddo80.dll 11-Apr-2003 03:45    8.0.767.0  1,024,576 bytes  Msmdgd80.dll 11-Apr-2003 03:45    8.0.0.761  9,638,464 bytes  Msmdsgn80.dll 02-May-2003 20:22    8.0.817.0  1,831,492 bytes  Msmdsrv.exe 22-Apr-2003 13:25    8.0.813.0  2,077,264 bytes  Msolap80.dll Note Because of file dependencies, the most recent hotfix or feature that contains the files may also contain files.

SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services 64-bit
For additional information information about a hotfix build designed to be applied on a server that is running SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services 64-bit, or to find out if a fix is scheduled to be included in SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services 64-bit Service Pack 4, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

822672 FIX: Hotfix Information for Build 8.0.843.0 of SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services 64-bit



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4.

