Question

Performing changes to dimensions is always a risk for me if I don’t know exactly which cubes will be affected. Is there a more elegant way to do this than checking every cube one by one or creating an external documentation?

I would generally like to know if there is a way to do it, because we use a wide range of versions, but especially for SQL Server 2000 and 2008.

Answer 1

Dimensions are actually realted to Measure Groups (whihc belong to cubes, of course)
You can check these realtions with this query:

SELECT  *
FROM    $SYSTEM.MDSCHEMA_MEASUREGROUP_DIMENSIONS
WHERE   CUBE_NAME = 'YOUR_CUBE_NAME'