Error “Server failed to return the table schema “ when creating PerformancePoint dimensions

July 17th, 2008 Russell Posted in PerformancePoint |

While building out some dimensions today, I ran into the following error while using Planning Business Modeler. The error occurred when I selected the name of a table/view in my data source:

Server failed to return the table schema from source database. (Error code: PerformancePoint_225000210). Getting table schema for table <table name> from database <database> on server <server> failed.

Turns out PPS can’t handle any tables or views which are not part of the dbo schema. I had a few of them, and had to use the command below to swap the schema each object belonged to before I could get them into PPS.  I suppose I could have created a dbo.View on top of each object, but I was being lazy:

 ALTER SCHEMA dbo TRANSFER someschemaname.tablename