Making changes to a cube in production
The first problem we'll face once a cube has gone into production is how to make changes to it without causing disruption to our users. In a development environment we can generally make any changes to a cube we like because we are the only users of our cube; however, we need to be more careful when deploying changes to the cube into production for two reasons:
Some changes we make may result in cubes or dimensions becoming unprocessed. Adding a new calculated measure to a cube doesn't require any processing at all; adding a new dimension to a cube means that the cube will need a full process. If we have a lot of data in our cube a full process might take a long time, and our users will probably not want to have to wait to run their queries while this happens.
It's likely that our BI Development Studio solution will not match the deployed version of the cube in some important respects. We saw in Chapter 9 that roles may be added or updated on an Analysis...
