Chapter 54
Configuring and Administering Analysis Services
In This Chapter
Installing Analysis Services
How to Configure Analysis Services Settings
Exploring Advanced Analysis Services Deployments
Evaluating Analysis Services Performance
The focus of this chapter is on deploying and administering a SQL Server Analysis Services Server. Key new SQL Server Analysis Services features require your attention, which are also discussed. Analysis Services provides a specialized storage and query engine optimized for handling queries that often require large result sets to be scanned and aggregated. An important enabler of these impressive data retrieval capabilities are Analysis Services storage engine optimizations, most notably Aggregations.
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