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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

Chapter 7. Adding Currency Conversion

In this chapter we will discuss how we can implement currency conversion in an Analysis Services solution. As we will see, it is not always a good idea to perform this currency conversion in the cube itself, it could be better to implement it in the ETL phase—it all depends on our requirements and analysis needs. We will provide some examples of different choices that are available in different circumstances.

BI Development Studio provides a wizard to implement currency conversion in the cube, automatically generating the necessary objects and MDX scripts. We will describe how to use this wizard in the most effective way. Then, we will see how to implement currency conversion using the MeasureExpression property of a measure, a feature that is faster but that is also only available in the Enterprise Edition of Analysis Services.

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