CHAPTER 9
Beginning the SSAS Project
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
For more than a decade now, alongside its relational database server, Microsoft has provided a multidimensional database server, also known as a SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) cube. In all of that time, this premier multidimensional SSAS cube server has proven itself to be both a cost-effective and powerful addition to BI solutions around the world.
The purpose of SSAS is to provide high-performance reporting data. Reports created on a multidimensional cube run faster compared to reports built upon a set of relational tables. As usual, ...
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