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Collections, MDStore 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.

The MDStore interface supports the following collections.

Collection

Description

Commands

The collection of user-defined commands or sequence of commands

CustomProperties

The collection of user-defined properties

DataSources

The collection of objects specifying a data provider

Dimensions

The collection that holds the dimension definitions for an object

MDStores

The collection that holds MDStore objects

Measures

The collection that holds the measures

MiningModels

The collection of data mining models contained within a database

Roles

The collection that holds the user role definitions for a database

The following table shows the class types of the objects that each collection can contain.

Access Cross-Reference

The following table shows whether a collection is read/write (R/W), read-only (R), or not applicable (n/a) for each of the MDStore objects.

Collection

clsDatabase

clsCube

clsPartition

clsAggregation

Commands

R/W

R/W

n/a

n/a

Custom Properties

R/W

R/W

R/W

R/W

DataSources

R/W

R/W*

R/W

n/a

Dimensions

R/W

R/W

R

R

MDStores

R/W

R/W

R/W

R

Measures

n/a

R/W

R

R

MiningModels

R/W

n/a

n/a

n/a

Roles

R/W

R/W

n/a

n/a

*This property is not applicable (n/a) for virtual cubes (that is, those of SubClassType sbclsVirtual).

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