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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

Summary


In this chapter, you learned about the requirements that most organizations have when it comes to an information management platform. You were introduced to SQL Server Analysis Services that provides the capabilities needed to create a self-service platform that can serve as the central place for all the information handling. SQL Server Analysis Services allows users to work with the data in the form of business entities, instead of through accessing a databases schema. It allows users to use easy to learn query tools such as Microsoft Excel to analyze the large amounts of data with subsecond response times. The users can easily create different kinds of reports and dashboards with the semantic model as the data source.

In this book, you will learn how to create a semantic model in SQL Server Analysis Services following easy steps. The next chapter, will focus on the steps necessary to get you started with your development. This includes learning about the different semantic models that are available, and how to install the system.