Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy Cookbook

Creating the metadata and configuring the Intelligence Server

The metadata consists of a series of tables that MicroStrategy uses to store information about projects and the objects that build up those projects. In one of the previous recipes, we created the empty metadata database and now we will start populating it.

Getting ready

You need to have completed the previous recipe to continue.

How to do it...

To create the metadata, do the following:

1. You should already have the configuration wizard open in the background; if you closed it, you can find it in Start | All Programs | MicroStrategy. Click on Configuration Wizard to run it.
2. In the first page of the wizard, the first option should already be selected, so click on Next.
3. In this phase of the project, ...