Time for action – deploying an SSAS project

You've seen one of the ways of deployment in this chapter, which was deployment from SSDT. Deployment from SSDT can be easily done with a deployment option that can be set in the project's properties. There are other ways for deployment: deployment with Deployment Wizard and deployment with XMLA. In this example, we will change some deployment options in the SSDT project and also use the deployment wizard to deploy the project to an SSAS server by performing the following steps:

1. In the Solution Explorer pane, right-click on a project and select Properties.

2. In the project's Configuration Properties window, go to the Deployment tab. You can see some of the deployment options there, such as the server and database name.

   

3. Close the project's properties window.

4. Right-click on the project in Solution Explorer and build the project.

5. Then, go to the project folder in Windows Explorer; under the bin folder, you will find four files. These files are deployment...