Sources Element (XMLA)

Contains a collection of Source elements for the parent MergePartitions element.

Syntax

  
<MergePartitions>  
...  
   <Sources>  
      <Source>...</Source>  
   </Sources>  
...  
</MergePartitions>  

Element characteristics

Characteristic	Description
Data type and length	None
Default value	None
Cardinality	1-1: Required element that occurs once and only once.

Element relationships

Relationship	Element
Parent elements	MergePartitions
Child elements	Source

Remarks

Example

The following example combines all four partitions of the Internet Sales measure group into the Internet_Sales_2004 target partition. The example uses the Adventure Works DW cube of the sample database.

<MergePartitions xmlns="http://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>