Command Interface

Note

  This feature will be removed in the next version of Microsoft SQL Server. Do not use this feature in new development work, and modify applications that currently use this feature as soon as possible.

In Decision Support Objects (DSO), certain objects can contain a series of user-defined commands that are automatically executed on the client when you access the object. These commands can include expressions written in Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) that define calculated members, named sets, library references, and other commands.

The objects that implement the Command interface, CubeCommand, DBCommand, and RoleCommand, have a ClassType property value of clsCubeCommand, clsDatabaseCommand, or clsRoleCommand respectively. The Command interface provides collections, methods, and properties to manipulate these objects.

Applies To:clsCubeCommand, clsDatabaseCommand, clsRoleCommand

Collections

The Command interface contains the following collection.

Collection	Description
CustomProperties	The collection of user-defined properties for the command object

Methods

The Command interface contains the following methods.

Method	Description
Clone	Copies an existing object to a target object of the same class type
LockObject	Locks an object
UnlockObject	Unlocks a previously locked object
Update	Saves the definition of the command object in the metadata repository

Properties

The Command interface supports the following properties.

Property	Description
ClassType	Returns an enumeration constant that identifies the specific class type
CommandType	Returns an enumeration constant that identifies the command's use
Description	Sets or returns the description of the command object
IsValid	Indicates whether the Name and Statement properties are empty and whether the command object belongs to a collection
Name	Sets or returns the name of the command object
OrdinalPosition	Returns the ordinal position of the command object in the Commands collection of the parent MDStore object
Parent	Returns a reference to the parent MDStore object
ParentObject	Returns a reference to the parent object of which this object is a child
Statement	Sets or returns the text of the command statement
SubClassType	Returns an enumeration constant that identifies the subclass type of the object

See Also

Concepts

Commands