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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
www.PacktPub.com
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

Processing objects in Analysis Services


In order for users to be able to access your cube and query it, you also need to process it. Processing the cube is the series of steps when Analysis Services reads data from the data sources and stores it as a structure within the server. Processing is a step that can take considerable time if you work with large data volumes. It will execute a select against all tables that are used as dimensions or fact tables in the data source view.

Processing can either be done interactively when deploying the cube or as a separate step using SQL Server Management Studio. You also have the possibility to schedule processing using SQL Server Integration Services or SQL Agent. This is the most common way of processing databases when you run Analysis Services in production.

Processing is actually just a XMLA command itself, the code that is necessary to execute to process the FirstCube database looks like the following:

<!--Query 4.1-->
<Batch xmlns="http...
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