Creating a Data Source View
A data source view is a logical data model that exists between your physical source database and Analysis Services dimensions and cubes. When you create a data source view, you designate the tables and views in the source database that contain data that you want to use to build dimensions and cubes. BIDS connects to the source database and reads the table and view definitions and stores that metadata in the data source view. Metadata is "data about the data": the names of the tables and views, the column names, data types, primary key columns, and foreign key relationships.
The data source view allows you to provide additional metadata. If you need to transform data, you can add a named calculation that contains a SQL ...
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