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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

Adding objects to the data source view


Now we will start adding more logic to the data source view. We will add new tables and add calculations as well as changing some of the tables to bind to queries.

In order to add new objects to the view, you can click on the Add/Remove Objects button in the left-hand upper corner in the design area, another option is to right-click in any of the empty space in the diagram window and choose Add/Remove Tables... to the data source view.

In the same menu, you also have the option of finding objects within the view. This is a feature that can become handy when you are working with large schemas that have many tables. Another good feature to navigate around a project is the ability to group the objects into different diagrams; so that you will have one view for internet sales and one for reseller sales.

Sometimes the tables do not contain the relevant information in one column or you have to create some other calculation. You can easily create additional columns...