Question The purpose of this post is to demonstrate how to connect to a Sisense ElastiCube from Microsoft Excel. Answer Begin by installing the Sisense ODBC driver. https://documentation.sisense.com/latest/odbc.htm Once it is installed, go to ODBC-64...
Question Is there any logging on changes made to the schedule sync? We have an instance where one schedule build was disabled, and we would like to find out why. Answer The log that shows these actions in the ElastiCube server is called ECM.log and i...
Question When an ElastiCube is created in the desktop version of ElastiCube manager, only a .ecube file gets created, whereas when an ElastiCube is created in the web version of ElastiCube manager, a folder with the ElastiCube name is created that co...
Question This post we will talk about accumulation via millisec by using a unix timestamp transformation In this use case, We will be working with a CData Elasticsearch ODBC driver and the client needs a way to accumulate a database of milliseconds. ...
Question I would like to be able to track memory consumption of my ElastiCubes, but I can't find an easy way to link the process ID of my ElastiCube to the cube name. Answer If you open the Task Manager, go to the Details tab and right-click on one o...
Question SQL NULL is not technically a value, but rather a state. Fields are not equal or not equal to null, they are or are not null. As such, null fields can get a little tricky when attempting different kinds of transformations. For example, mathe...
Question In instances where tables within SQL Server contain JSON objects within a column you can use the import SQL query editor feature in Sisense to flatten these objects into individual fields. For example: Can be turned into: Answer To accomplis...
Question Some organizations provide Sisense to their clients as part of their business offering. Some of these organizations would like also to provide clients with the consortium data derived from Sisense - a single ElastiCube where clients submit t...
Question What is the best way to remove leading zeros? I have a field that is alphanumeric values (JONESBJ001, SMITH KC02, 0000012345, 0000555213. Answer If all of your data with leading zeros will always be some sort of numerical string (i.e. there ...
Question A relatively common database design strategy is to have a tag column with an arbitrary number of tags. Here is an example in which we look at numbers between 1 and 10 and tag them as even, odd, perfect, or parts of the Fibonacci sequence: No...
Question LAG & LEAD Functions are functions that give access to multiple rows within a table, without the need for a self-join. The LAG function is used to access data from a previous row, while the LEAD function is used to return data from rows furt...
Question For a specific industry, like Education, even though the number of days is roughly the same every year, each academic year can start and end on different dates. The usual way of calculating YTD wouldn't work for these requirements because th...
Question We have multiple clients and to maintain this we modeled the dim_client table and we implemented the data security rules on this table. We have 2 fact tables (fact_sales and fact_budget) to have the sales information and sales target informa...
Question A data source in your ElastiCube contains a field with multiple values in it delimited by a particular character (i.e - comma, semicolon, space, etc.). You need to parse that field and create a table with a record for every value in the deli...
Question When using "Accumulate By" builds (see below), Sisense will only import "new" records based on a selected INT or DATETIME index field - if values in the source DB exceed the maximum value of that index as of the previous ElastiCube build, th...
