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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

Hands-on steps for configuring your cube project


To configure the cube project for deployment follow the given steps:

  1. Click on the Properties button in the Server Explorer window.

  2. Under Build, specify that you are targeting a Developer Edition deployment server.

  3. Under Deployment, set the target server as follows: localhost\multidimensional.

  4. Click on OK.

  5. Save the project.

  6. Go to the Build menu and choose to deploy the project; this will send a series of commands to the Analysis Services instance that you have specified under the Target | Server.

  7. Open up Management Studio and connect to the Analysis Services instance that you used as the target server.

  8. Click on the Databases folder and make sure that you have an Analysis Services database called FirstCube on your server.

Now we have configured the development environment for project mode development. There is another way that you can develop as well, and that is in online mode. This is something that is rarely used, but it can sometimes be useful when...