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Chapters 10. Deploying and Processing. Deploying Send your definitions to the Analysis Services Processing Perform the all prescribed calculations Tools are MSDT – to deploy and process (trigger these activities) SSMS – to check the results
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Deploying and Processing • Deploying • Send your definitions to the Analysis Services • Processing • Perform the all prescribed calculations • Tools are • MSDT – to deploy and process (trigger these activities) • SSMS – to check the results • Analysis Services Deployment Wizard – a more advanced tool that generate script for automated deployment to production -- skip
Other Bells and Whistles • Linked Object – especially linked measures • Allowed to combine other cubes to an existing one • BI wizard • A tool allows you to do a number of capability easily • Define time intelligence • Period to date calculation, rolling average, period-over-period growth • Define currency conversion • A lot more (page 384)
Other Bells and Whistles • KPI • The dashboard to indicate how things are going • Actions • Making cube even fancier by allowing other activities such as following a URL, allowing drill-through, or launching a Reporting Service report • Partitions • Break one cube to several cubes for concurrent processing to improve performance • Partitions and storage options MOLAP, ROLAP
Other Bells and Whistles • Aggregation Design • How much aggregation is performed • Two approaches: usage based or manual • Usage based is determined by checking the usage log • Manual is where the developers specify • Perspectives – very much like views • Translations – at metadata level