Source Element (XMLA)

Represents a source partition to be merged during a MergePartitions command.

Syntax

<Sources>
   <Source>
      <DatabaseID>...</DatabaseID>
      <CubeID>...</CubeID>
      <MeasureGroupID>...</MeasureGroupID>
      <PartitionID>...</PartitionID>
   </Source>
</Sources>

Element Characteristics

Characteristic	Description
Data type and length	None
Default value	None
Cardinality	1-n: Required element that can occur more than once.

Element Relationships

Relationship	Element
Parent elements	Sources
Child elements	CubeID, DatabaseID, MeasureGroupID, PartitionID

Remarks

The Source element is an object reference to a single partition to be merged into a target partition specified by the Target element of the parent MergePartitions element.

Example

The following example combines all four partitions of the Internet Sales measure group into the Internet_Sales_2004 target partition. The example refers to the AdventureWorks cube of the AdventureWorks sample Analysis Services database.

<MergePartitions xmlns="https://schemas.microsoft.com/analysisservices/2003/engine">
  <Sources>
     <Source>
        <DatabaseID>database</DatabaseID>
        <CubeID>Adventure Works DW</CubeID>
        <MeasureGroupID>Fact Internet Sales 1</MeasureGroupID>
        <PartitionID>Internet_Sales_2001</PartitionID>
     </Source>
     <Source>
      <DatabaseID>database</DatabaseID>
      <CubeID>Adventure Works DW</CubeID>
      <MeasureGroupID>Fact Internet Sales 1</MeasureGroupID>
      <PartitionID>Internet_Sales_2002</PartitionID>
    </Source>
    <Source>
      <DatabaseID>database</DatabaseID>
      <CubeID>Adventure Works DW</CubeID>
      <MeasureGroupID>Fact Internet Sales 1</MeasureGroupID>
      <PartitionID>Internet_Sales_2003</PartitionID>
    </Source>
  </Sources>
  <Target>
    <DatabaseID>database</DatabaseID>
    <CubeID>Adventure Works DW</CubeID>
    <MeasureGroupID>Fact Internet Sales 1</MeasureGroupID>
    <PartitionID>Internet_Sales_2004</PartitionID>
  </Target>
</MergePartitions>

See Also

Reference

Target Element (XMLA)

Concepts

Properties (XMLA)

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