SSRS Reports and Excel Power Pivot is used as front end for Reporting and data analysis with SSAS (SQL Server Analysis Services) OLAP Cube.Most cubes store pre-aggregates of the measures with its special storage structure to provide quick response to queries. An OLAP cube is a technology that stores data in an optimized way to provide a quick response to various types of complex queries by using dimensions and measures.Brief Introduction to OLAP Cube What is OLAP Cube & Why do we need it? If you are totally new to Data Warehouse concepts, please take a quick look at my previous article “ Create First Data Warehouse” which can give you a brief idea on data warehouse concepts which are used in this article. We will first take a glimpse at the basic introduction to requirement of OLAP Cube, and then create OLAP Cube in SQL Server Analysis Service by following 10 easy steps.īefore preparing OLAP Cube, we need to create and populate our data warehouse. This article is created to help those technical newbies who want to learn creation of OLAP Cube in SSAS (SQL Server Analysis Services) using Microsoft BIDS (Business Intelligence Development Studio) Environment and Data Warehouse.
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