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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

Chapter 10. Cubes in the Larger Context

Throughout this book you have learned how to develop and maintain an Analysis Services solution. This book started with an introduction to data warehousing and dimensional modeling. You learned about the differences between fact and dimension tables and how this can help you when developing reporting solutions, making it simpler to query databases.

After that, you started to develop your first cube solution and you got exposed to concepts such as dimensions, attributes, and measures. In Chapter 5, Querying Your Cube, you got an introduction to MDX and how you can use the query language to write queries that solve different business problems. It then started to get more advanced, and in Chapter 6, Adding Functionality to Your Cube, you extended the solution by adding calculations and KPIs to the cube. Chapter 7, Securing Your Cube Project, contained information on how to secure your cube and Chapter 8, Using Aggregations to Performance Optimize a Cube...