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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

Defining the workspace server


When you have created the project, the first dialog that you will see is the following:

The workspace server is a server that is used when developing the project; the workspace server is not necessarily the same server as the deployment server. The reason for having a workspace server is because SQL Server Data Tools do not have an in-process xVelocity analytical engine just as Excel has with the PowerPivot add-in. SQL Server Data Tools need a server that will be used during the design phase.

To create the project, type in the name and instance name of your tabular server in the field for Workspace server and then click on OK.

When you connect to a tabular instance in Management Studio, you can see the temporary in-memory database created by SQL Server Data Tools, as shown in the following screenshot:

You can control how long the temporary model will live by specifying the Workspace Retention option under the Model.bim properties, as shown in the following screenshot...