MDSCHEMA_CUBES Rowset

The CUBES rowset contains information about the available cubes in a schema (or the catalog, if the provider does not support schemas).

GUID: MDSCHEMA_CUBES

Table 3 describes the rowset structure.

Table 3. MDSCHEMA_CUBES Rowset structure

Column Name	Essbase Mapping
CATALOG_NAME	Application name
CUBE_NAME	Database name
CUBE_TYPE	“CUBE”
LAST_SCHEMA_UPDATE	Time stamp of last outline update
DESCRIPTION	Database description

Request Example

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope
 xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
 xmlns:xsi = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
 <SOAP-ENV:Body>
  <Discover xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-analysis"
   SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
   <RequestType>MDSCHEMA_CUBES</RequestType>
    <Restrictions>
     <RestrictionList>
      <CATALOG_NAME>Demo</CATALOG_NAME>
     </RestrictionList>
    </Restrictions>
    <Properties>
     <PropertyList>
      <DataSourceInfo>
       Provider=Essbase;Data Source=localhost
      </DataSourceInfo>
      <Format>Tabular</Format>
     </PropertyList>
    </Properties>
   </Discover>
 </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

Response Example

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" 
 SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
 <SOAP-ENV:Body>
  <m:DiscoverResponse xmlns:m="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-analysis">
   <m:return xsi:type="xsd:string"
             xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
             xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
    <root xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-analysis:rowset"
          xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
     <xsd:schema xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-analysis:rowset" 
      targetNamespace="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-analysis:rowset" 
      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
      xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
      xmlns:sql="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-sql"
      elementFormDefault="qualified">
      <xsd:element name="root">
       <xsd:complexType>
        <xsd:sequence minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
         <xsd:element name="row" type="row"/>
        </xsd:sequence>
       </xsd:complexType>
      </xsd:element>
      <xsd:complexType name="row">
       <xsd:sequence maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0">
        <xsd:element name="CATALOG_NAME" type="xsd:string" 
         sql:field="CATALOG_NAME"/>
        <xsd:element name="CUBE_NAME" type="xsd:string" 
         sql:field="CUBE_NAME"/>
        <xsd:element name="CUBE_TYPE" type="xsd:string" 
         sql:field="CUBE_TYPE"/>
        <xsd:element name="LAST_SCHEMA_UPDATE" type="xsd:dateTime" 
         sql:field="LAST_SCHEMA_UPDATE" minOccurs="0"/>
        <xsd:element name="DESCRIPTION" type="xsd:string" 
         sql:field="DESCRIPTION" minOccurs="0"/>
       </xsd:sequence>
      </xsd:complexType>
     </xsd:schema>
     <row>
      <CATALOG_NAME>Demo</CATALOG_NAME>
      <CUBE_NAME>Demo.Basic</CUBE_NAME>
      <CUBE_TYPE>CUBE</CUBE_TYPE>
     </row>
    </root>
   </m:return>
  </m:DiscoverResponse>
 </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>