formatting in cube

Is there a way to format data in the cube?

I have a date formatted as such:

YYYY-MM

I want to show the date as 01, 02, 10, 11, ... instead of 2006 1, 2006 2, I want 2006 01, 2006 02, and so on

is this possible to accomplish?

Also,

I have numbers showing

5.12345677999E-02

How can i get this to show as 5.12345 only?

Is this something that should be handled on the db/select statement side or is there a way to do this on the analysis services cube side?

thanks

On the date formatting, I am assuming that your dates are part of a dimension. In this case what you would normally do is to define a column either in a view or in the DSV that formats the date the way you want it and returns this as a string. You then set this string up to be the attributes name and set up the actual value to be the attribute key. This allows you to do things like sort by values, but display nice strings for the names.

On the numbers issue, there is a format string that you can define for every measure. The only problem here is that Analysis Services can return both the formatted and unformatted values and some clients (like Excel prior to Excel 2007) only take the unformatted value, so the formatting may have to be done client side.

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i have my derived column formatted as yyyy-dd-mm but how would I have the 0 in front of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and not in front of 10,11,12?

what would i have to add in the derived column task?

|||You can use the Len() function to determine if your number is 1 character long, and prefix a zero if it is. Len is supported in the SSIS derived column transformation, if that is what you were referring to in your question. It's also supported in most databases, so you could implement it in your data source view as well.|||

In T-SQL you could do something like the following, just replace the call to GETDATE() with the date column name in your table

SELECT LEFT(CONVERT(varchar,getdate(),121),7)

The 121 format is "yyyy-mm-dd hh:mi:ss.mmm(24h)" and you just grab the left 7 of that.