Chapter 7. Analysis Services Security

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Managing instance-level administrative security
  • Managing database-level security
  • Managing cube-level security
  • Managing dimension hierarchy-level security
  • Implementing dynamic security
  • Implementing cell-level security

Introduction

This chapter teaches how to secure Analysis Services starting at the instance level and working all the way down to the individual cube cells. Analysis Services administrators have unrestricted access to all items within the server—they can restart the service, read and process data in every database, dimension, and cube, alter configuration settings, collect traces, and so on. This level of access is best reserved for database administrators. SSAS developers ...

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