SQL Server Analysis Services 2008 Overview, Architecture

1. SQL Server Analysis Services 2008
Vishal Jharwade
sqlcircuit.blogspot.com

2. Agenda
What is Business Intelligence?
SQL Server BI Model
Overview of Data Warehousing
SQL Server Analysis Services Architecture
 Building a CUBE
•Star/Snow flake Schema
•Measure/Dimension/Fact
•Named Query
•Named Set
•Calculated Member
•KPI
•Drill Through Action
•Partition
•Storage Mode
•Aggregation
•Deployment

3. What is Business Intelligence?
 Business Intelligence is the processes, technologies, and tools that help
us to change data into information, information into knowledge and
knowledge into plans that guide organization
 Technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing and providing access to data
to help enterprise users make better business Decisions.
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4. Why BI ?

5. BI Workflow

6. Analysis Services
• It is the part of SQL Server BI Model
• It delivers online analytical processing (OLAP) and data mining functionality for
business intelligence applications.
• It allows us to design, create, and manage multidimensional structures that
contain data aggregated from other data sources.
• BIDS- Business Intelligence Development Studio is used for creating and
updating cubes, dimensions, and Data Mining models.
• The feature that makes Analysis service so popular is Pre-Aggregation.

7. High Level Architecture of Analysis Service

8. Internal Architecture of Analysis Service

9. Terminologies
• Dimension
• Fact
• Measure
• Calculated Member
• Star and Snow Flake Schema
• Cube
• Hierarchy
• Storage Mode
• Partition
• Aggregation
• Drill though
• XMLA
• MDX
• Perspective

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