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Getting Started with SQL Server 2012 Cube Development

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Getting Started with SQL Server 2012 Cube Development

Overview of this book

Analysis Services have been the number one OLAP engine for years. With the increased focus on business intelligence solutions, there is a shortage of professionals in this area. Start your journey into becoming a BI developer using the popular tools included in every SQL Server installation. Getting Started with SQL Server 2012 Cube Development teaches you through clear step-by-step exercises to create business intelligence solutions using Analysis Services. The knowledge gained through these practical examples can immediately be applied to your real-world problems. Getting Started with SQL Server 2012 Cube Development begins with an introduction to business intelligence and Analysis Services, the world's most-used cube engine. Guiding you through easy-to-understand examples to become a cube developer. Learn how to create a cube including all the advanced features such as KPIs, calculated measures, and time intelligence. Security and performance tuning will also be explored. You will learn how to perform and automate core tasks like deployment and processing. The main focus is on multidimensional cubes, but the creation of in-memory models will also be covered. You will learn everything you need to get started with cube development using SQL Server 2012.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Getting Started with SQL Server 2012 Cube Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Running the aggregation wizard


The easiest way to create aggregations is to use the Aggregation Design Wizard. The wizard analyzes the cube and the dimensions, and tries to determine the appropriate number of aggregations based on the cube structure and content. In the following section, you will use the wizard to create aggregations on the Fact Internet Sales fact table, we will add aggregations on the Order Date and Product dimensions. To run the wizard, follow the given steps:

  1. In the Aggregations tab, click on the Design aggregations button.

  2. Click on Next in the Aggregation Design Wizard window.

  3. Select all the partitions that you want to create aggregations for; in the example, the following should be selected if you create aggregations for the FactInternetSales measure group.

  4. Click on Next to move to the Review Aggregation Usage step.

  5. Here, you have the option to define the optimizations that you want to apply to the different attributes of the dimensions.

    Note

    The options in the aggregation...