September 2010
Beginner to intermediate
424 pages
12h 17m
English
book
Knight's Microsoft® Business Intelligence 24-Hour Trainer: Leveraging Microsoft SQL Server® Integration, Analysis, and Reporting Services with Excel® and SharePoint®
by Brian Knight, Devin Knight, Adam Jorgensen, Patrick LeBlanc, Mike Davis
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Using the Cube Wizard
You have done a lot of work to get to this point, and all that work is about to be battle
tested. You have likely designed a data warehouse and built database relationships, designed
an ETL process in SSIS to load that database, and have just begun in SSAS with the data
source and data source view. Now you are ready to create a cube, which is the subject of this
lesson. A cube is a set of measures (facts) and dimensions that are related in a way that helps
you analyze your data. Any small problems with the ETL and even bad relationships built in
the database will be exposed while you design and process the cube. As you process the new
cube you will soon discover any design flaws from previous steps in errors that appear during
processing.
Creating the initial cube using the Cube Wizard is actually a very quick process. Designing the
data source, data source view, and initial cube represent about five percent of the project. The
other 95 percent is building out what the wizard creates so it can be more useful to your end
users. Doing this includes, but is not limited to, correcting formatting, adding dimension hier-
archies, and creating MDX calculations.
The Cube Wizard automates the process of creating the cube and can automatically create
dimensions that are related for you as well. To get started you will open the Solution Explorer
(Ctrl+Alt+L) with an Analysis ...
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