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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Adding New Dimensions and
Measure Groups
As is probably true of any project that you’ve been on, the requirements change as the project
goes through its development cycle. In this lesson you’ll learn how to develop your cube over
time to add new measure groups, measures, and dimensions. You’ll also learn about different
ways to relate the dimensions to your measure groups.
To start this lesson and make sure you have the same configuration for your
cubes that we’re working from, please download Lesson16Start.zip from this
lesson’s download on the Wrox website (
www.wrox.com). After downloading
the
.zip file, make sure you can deploy it to your development SSAS instance.
Lesson16Complete.zip shows you the complete solution.
ADDING A MEASURE GROUP AND MEASURES
In the example that you’ve been working on throughout this SSAS part of the book, you’ve
been working on Internet-based sales only. Now the requirements have changed and you need
to track sales to your resellers as well. To start, add the tables you’ll need throughout this
lesson to your Data Source View (DSV). For this lesson you’ll need to add FactResellerSales,
DimEmployee, DimReseller, DimProductCategory, and DimProductSubCategory (see the
result in Figure 16-1). For the purpose of this and future examples, create a friendly name for
each of the tables to lose the Dim and Fact prefixes (DimEmployee becomes Employee if you
sele ...
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