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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 tables to the data model


You can add tables to a model either from the same data source or from a new one. To add more tables to your model, perform the following steps:

  1. Open up the FirstCubeTabular project.

  2. Click on the Existing Connections button:

  3. Click on the available connection and then click on the Open button.

  4. Choose the Select from a list of tables and views to choose the data to import option and click on Next.

  5. Add the following tables to your model:

    • FactResellerSales

    • DimEmployee

    • DimReseller

    • DimGeography

  6. Click on Finish.

  7. The click on Close.

When you have imported the tables, the data and the relationships between the newly imported tables will be added to your model. However, you will not get the relationships between the newly imported tables and the existing tables. Instead, you need to add these relationships manually. Perform the following steps to do this:

  1. Click on the Diagram button in the lower right hand corner.

  2. Mark the OrderDateKey column in the FactResellerSales table...