CHAPTER 10

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Configuring Dimensions with SSAS

O Marvelous! What new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity.

— William Carlos Williams

Over the years, we have developed a proven method of creating and configuring SSAS cubes that provides the least amount of pain and the greatest chance of success. We have already begun our process within the previous chapter by preparing for the creation of our SSAS cubes by making our data source, data source view, and dimensions.

In this chapter, we continue this process by configuring SSAS dimensions using the dimension designer. We also discuss deploying and processing dimension and ...

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