Understanding the Analysis Services Environment and the “Land of Wizards”
Welcome to the “land of wizards.” This implementation of Analysis Services is heavily wizard oriented. AS has a Cube Wizard, Dimension Wizard, Partition Wizard, Incremental Update Wizard, Storage Design Wizard, Usage Analysis Wizard, Usage-Based Optimization Wizard, Calculated Cells Wizard, Action Wizard, Virtual Cube Wizard, Mining Model Wizard, and Security Roles Wizard. All are useful, and many of the capabilities are also available through editors of one kind or another. The wizard approach helps many who need to have a little structure in the definition process (and who want to rely on the default for much of what they need).
Figure 42.2 depicts how AS fits into the ...
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