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In a newly created Fabric Warehouse, I want to create a date dimension table from a query. I can't make the CREATE TABLE or INSERT INTO work. For example:
-- CREATE table [dbo].test AS
WITH date_basic AS (
SELECT TOP (DATEDIFF(DAY, '1970-01-01', '2099-12-31') + 1)
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY (SELECT NULL)) - 1 AS N
FROM sys.all_columns AS AC1
CROSS JOIN sys.all_columns AS AC2
),
dates as (
SELECT
CAST(DATEADD(DAY, date_basic.N, '1970-01-01') AS DATE) AS date_test
FROM date_basic)
select * from dates;
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@Anonymous you are right, I made this work
CREATE table [dbo].test AS
WITH x AS (SELECT n FROM (VALUES (0),(1),(2),(3),(4),(5),(6),(7),(8),(9)) v(n)),
date_basic as (
SELECT TOP (DATEDIFF(DAY, '1970-01-01', '2099-12-31') + 1)
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY (SELECT NULL)) - 1 AS N
FROM x ones, x tens, x hundreds, x thousands
ORDER BY 1),
dates as (
SELECT
CAST(DATEADD(DAY, date_basic.N, '1970-01-01') AS DATE) AS date
FROM date_basic)
select * from dates
@Anonymous you are right, I made this work
CREATE table [dbo].test AS
WITH x AS (SELECT n FROM (VALUES (0),(1),(2),(3),(4),(5),(6),(7),(8),(9)) v(n)),
date_basic as (
SELECT TOP (DATEDIFF(DAY, '1970-01-01', '2099-12-31') + 1)
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY (SELECT NULL)) - 1 AS N
FROM x ones, x tens, x hundreds, x thousands
ORDER BY 1),
dates as (
SELECT
CAST(DATEADD(DAY, date_basic.N, '1970-01-01') AS DATE) AS date
FROM date_basic)
select * from dates
Hi @BiJoe
Glad that your query got resolved. Please continue using Fabric Community for any help regarding your queries.
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The following results in "The query references an object that is not supported in distributed processing mode."
WITH date_basic AS (
SELECT TOP (DATEDIFF(DAY, '1970-01-01', '2099-12-31') + 1)
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY (SELECT NULL)) - 1 AS N
FROM sys.all_columns AS AC1
CROSS JOIN sys.all_columns AS AC2
),
dates as (
SELECT
CAST(DATEADD(DAY, date_basic.N, '1970-01-01') AS DATE) AS date_test
FROM date_basic)
insert [dbo].test (date_test)
select * from dates
go
Hi @BiJoe
Thanks for using Fabric Community.
The error The query references an object that is not supported in distributed processing mode
indicates that you've used an object or function that can't be used while you query data in Microsoft Fabric Warehouse.
Fabric Warehouse uses distributed processing for performance, but some objects and constructs aren't supported in this mode. The error message indicates that your query references an unsupported object, likely sys.all_columns
.
You can refer to this link for more information: Link1
Hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any further questions.