Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed
by Ray Rankins, Paul Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
What’s New in SSAS
SQL Server 2005 was the big jump into completely redeploying Analysis Services—from the architecture, to the development environment, to the multidimensional languages supported, and even to the wizard-driven deployments. SQL Server 2008 R2 raises this core work up a few more notches with enhancements at almost every part of SSAS and with the addition of major scaleout capabilities. Following are some of the top new features and enhancements:
• Microsoft has improved and streamlined the Cube Designer.
• Several subtle enhancements have been made around the Dimension and Aggregation Designers.
• You can now create attribute relationships with the new Attribute Relationship Designer.
• You can use subspace computations to optimize ...
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