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Getting Started with SQL Server 2012 Cube Development

You're reading from   Getting Started with SQL Server 2012 Cube Development Learn to develop and query Analysis Services cubes and models, with a practical, step-by-step approach with this book and ebook

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849689502
Length 288 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Getting Started with SQL Server 2012 Cube Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. Self-service Business Intelligence, Creating Value from Data FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing SSAS and Preparing for Cube Development 3. Creating Your First Multidimensional Cube 4. Deploying and Processing Cubes 5. Querying Your Cube 6. Adding Functionality to Your Cube 7. Securing Your Cube Project 8. Using Aggregations to Performance Optimize a Cube 9. In-memory, the Future 10. Cubes in the Larger Context Index

Chapter 8. Using Aggregations to Performance Optimize a Cube

Performance is one of the crucial parts of any development project. If a user has to wait too long in an application, they will be dissatisfied and not keen on using the application. This is especially important for reporting applications. Many users can manage their daily job without reports; as an example, a sales representative can meet customers without having information about what the customer has bought previously, but the meeting will be more productive if they have this information. As a developer it is your responsibility to build a solution that performs. But what is good performance? If you ask a user, waiting more than 30 seconds is many times unacceptable for a report. If you have to wait that long, then it is very hard to do the ad-hoc analysis in an efficient way.

One of the main benefits of Analysis Services and other OLAP engines is the performance that you will get from them. The reason that you will get good...

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