Entries Published On January, 2015
Moving a Cube Partition Without Unprocessing It
Last week I spent some time redesigning a SSAS multidimensional cube and part of that effort involved re-partitioning the measure group by customer (instead of date) and redistributing the partitions across a new set of drives. Initial testing shows serious performance improvement (which I plan to blog about in a bit more detail in the …
Building an OLAP Farm in the Cloud with Azure Virtual Machines – Part 3
This is the third part in a series of posts on the “OLAP Farm” – which is an Analysis Services architecture that makes use of remote partitions on the backend and linked dimensions and linked measure groups on the front end in order to support solutions where datasets and latency requirements simply can’t be handled …