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Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Analysis Services Step by Step
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Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Analysis Services Step by Step

by Scott Cameron
April 2009
Beginner content levelBeginner
448 pages
14h 1m
English
Microsoft Press
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Working with Partitions

Partitions make it possible for you to create extremely large cubes. You can effectively create small, medium-sized, and even remarkably large cubes without using partitions. But partitions are useful when you need to create very large, enterprise-wide applications. For that reason, the ability to manage multiple partitions is available only with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition.

Understanding Partition Strategies

Each Analysis Services measure group consists of at least one partition. You design storage modes and aggregations at the partition level. Whether a measure group contains only a single partition or many partitions, the process of designing storage is the same.

One of the benefits of creating multiple ...

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