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- Design SQL Server Analysis Services cubes, dimensions, and calculations from the experts!
- Add calculations to the cube, including implementing currency conversion and a date tool dimension
- Use security to control access to data in your cube
If you are an Analysis Services cube designer wishing to learn more advanced topic and best practices for cube design, this book is for you.You are expected to have some prior experience with Analysis Services cube development.
What You Will Learn- Build a data mart suitable for use with Analysis Services
- Work with a thread pool effectively
- Create and configure an Analysis Services project in SQL Server Data Tools
- Use the Dimension Wizard and the Dimension Editor to build dimensions
- Create measure groups and associate them with dimensions
- Design cubes and dimensions and also implement common calculations in MDX
- Explore the security model, including dimension security and cell security, and implement dynamic security
- Tune queries to get the best possible performance
- Automate processing and partition creation
- Monitor your cube to see whos actually using it
Microsofts SQL Server Analysis Services 2012 Multidimensional is an OLAP server that allows end users to analyze large amounts of business data quickly and easily, using a variety of tools including Excel, and to create their own reports without IT involvement. It is part of the Microsoft SQL Server suite of tools and has been used widely on Business Intelligence projects for the last 15 years; it is now the most commonly used OLAP server in the world.
Expert Cube Development with SSAS Multidimensional Models will teach you tips and tricks for cube design from some of the most experienced Analysis Services experts in the world. Topics covered include designing dimensions and cubes, implementing common MDX calculations, security and performance tuning.
The book takes you through the whole lifecycle of Analysis Services cube development, from how data warehouse design affects your cube, through cube and dimension design to performance tuning and monitoring. Some previous experience of Analysis Services is assumed the focus is on best practices and design patterns.
The book starts off with a discussion of data warehouse design and how it relates to Analysis Services. Following on from that, best practices relating to Analysis Services cube and dimension design are covered, including topics such as optimizing dimension attribute relationships and handling fact tables that contain data at different granularities.
Next, the book looks at using MDX to implement common business calculations, and then moves on to more advanced problems like currency conversion calculations and creating a date tool dimensions.
Finally security, performance tuning, automation of administrative tasks and monitoring usage and performance each get their own chapter and subject such as dynamic security roles, using Profiler to diagnose query performance problems and automating partition creation are also dealt with.
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First published: July 2009
Second Edition: February 2014
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Authors
Chris Webb
Alberto Ferrari
Marco Russo
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First and foremost, I'd like to thank my wife Helen and my two daughters Natasha and Mimi for their patience. I'd also like to thank everyone who helped me and answered my questions when I was writing both the first and second editions: Deepak Puri, Darren Gosbell, David Elliott, Mark Garner, Edward Melomed, Gary Floyd, Greg Galloway, Mosha Pasumansky, Ashvini Sharma, Akshai Mirchandani, Marius Dumitru, Sacha Tomey, Teo Lachev, Thomas Ivarsson, Vidas Matelis, Jen Underwood, Paul te Braak, Dan English, Paul Turley, Sean O'Regan, James Serra, Stacia Misner, and Kasper de Jonge.
Alberto Ferrari (<>) is a consultant and trainer who specializes in Business Intelligence with the Microsoft BI stack. He spends half of his time consulting for companies who need to develop complex data warehouses, and the other half in training, book writing, conferences, and meetings. He is a SQL Server MVP and a SSAS-Maestro.
He is a founder, with Marco Russo, of www.sqlbi.com, where they publish whitepapers and articles about SQL Server Analysis Services technology. He co-authored several books on SSAS and PowerPivot.
My biggest thanks goes to my family: Caterina, Lorenzo, and Arianna. They have the patience to support me during the hard time of book writing and the smiles I need to fill my life with happiness.
Marco Russo is a Business Intelligence consultant and mentor. His main activities are related to data warehouse relational and multidimensional design, but he is also involved in the complete development lifecycle of a BI solution. He has particular competence and experience in sectors such as financial services (including complex OLAP designs in the banking area), manufacturing, gambling, and commercial distribution. Marco is also a book author, and in addition to his BI-related publications, he has authored books about .NET programming. He is also a speaker at international conferences such as TechEd, PASS Summit, SQLRally, and SQLBits. He achieved the unique SSAS Maestro certification and is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer with several Microsoft Certified Professional certifications.
Sean O'Regan is a senior Business Intelligence consultant based in London, UK. He has been working with SQL Server since version 6.5, building a data warehouse for a large software reseller. In 1997, he co-founded a software house that grew from a two man outfit to a Microsoft Gold Partner. In 2009, he returned to his roots as an independent consultant working through his own company, BI5 Limited (www.bi5.co.uk). Since then, he has been privileged to work with some great people on several high profile BI projects for some of the largest organizations in the world.
When he is not working, playing tennis, or spending time with his family, you will often find him at SQL user group events in London or at SQLBits conferences in the UK.
James Serra is an independent consultant with the title of Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence Architect. He is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP with over 25 years of IT experience. He started his career as a software developer, then was a DBA for 12 years, and for the last seven years he has been working extensively with Business Intelligence using the SQL Server BI stack. He has been at times a permanent employee, consultant, contractor, and owner of his own business. All these experiences along with continuous learning have helped him to develop many successful data warehouse and BI projects. He is a noted blogger and speaker, having presented at the PASS Summit and the PASS Business Analytics Conference.
He has earned the MSCE: SQL Server 2012 Business Intelligence, MSCE: SQL Server 2012 Data Platform, MCITP: SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence Developer, MCITP: SQL Server 2008 Database Administrator, and MCITP: SQL Server 2008 Database, and has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from UNLV.
James resides in Houston, Texas, with his wife Mary and three children: Lauren, RaeAnn, and James.
This book is dedicated to my wonderful wife Mary and my children Lauren, RaeAnn, and James, and my parents, Jim and Lorraine. Their love, understanding, and support is what made this book possible. Now if they only understood the content.
Dr. John Tunnicliffe is an independent consultant with extensive experience in implementing Business Intelligence solutions based on the Microsoft platform across a range of industries including investment banking, healthcare, legal, and professional services. With a particular focus on SSAS, John specializes in the design and development of Business Intelligence, data warehouse, and reporting systems based on OLAP technologies delivered to the end user via SharePoint.
With the ability to rapidly design Proof of Concept solutions, John has a proven track record of taking these prototypes and delivering them into a full production environment. Indeed, in the past, John has been the leader of two Innovation Award winning projects.
As a regular speaker at the SQLBits conference, John has covered topics such as building a dynamic OLAP environment and building an infrastructure to support real-time OLAP. Recordings of his presentations are available at http://www.sqlbits.com/Speakers/Dr_John_Tunnicliffe.
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