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Expert Cube Development with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services

You're reading from   Expert Cube Development with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Design and implement fast, scalable and maintainable cubes with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services with this book and eBook

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2009
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847197221
Length 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Expert Cube Development with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface
1. Designing the Data Warehouse for Analysis Services FREE CHAPTER 2. Building Basic Dimensions and Cubes 3. Designing More Complex Dimensions 4. Measures and Measure Groups 5. Adding Transactional Data such as Invoice Line and Sales Reason 6. Adding Calculations to the Cube 7. Adding Currency Conversion 8. Query Performance Tuning 9. Securing the Cube 10. Productionization 11. Monitoring Cube Performance and Usage Index

Summary


In this chapter we have seen many ways to enhance our cube by adding calculations to it. Let us briefly recall them:

  • Calculated Measures create new measures whose value is calculated using MDX expressions. The new measures will be available as if they are real measures.

  • Calculation dimensions allow us to apply a single calculation to all of the measures in our cube, avoiding the need to create multiple calculated measures.

  • Named sets allow us to pre-define static or semi-static sets of members that in turn make building reports easier for our users.

In the next chapter we'll move on to look at a much more complex, but nonetheless common type of calculation: currency conversion.

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