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Hands On Lab: Building Your First Cube with SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services

Version: 1.0

Description

This Hands On Lab will show you how to build and deploy a SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services cube for analyzing sales data and compare it to sales quotas.

Overview

This lab will create an Analysis Services project that consists of a data source, data source view, cube and three dimensions.

Objectives

The objectives of this exercise are to:

  • Create and configure an Analysis Services project
  • Create a data source
  • Create a data source view
  • Create dimensions
  • Assemble and format a cube
  • Browse the cube

System Requirements

You must have installed the following items to complete this lab:

Setup

All the requisites for this lab are verified using the Configuration Wizard. To make sure that everything is correctly configured, follow these steps.

Note:
To perform the setup steps you need to run the scripts in a command window with administrator privileges.

  1. Launch the Configuration Wizard for this lab by double-clicking the Dependencies.dep file located under the Source\Setup folder of this lab. Install any pre-requisites that are missing (rescanning if necessary) and complete the wizard.

Cleanup

  1. There is no need to cleanup if you intend to continue the sequence of labs in this training kit.
  2. To restore the original state of the AdventureWorksDW2008R2 SQL Server database and remove the Sales Analysis Analysis Services database, execute the Cleanup.cmd script located under the Setup folder in the Source folder of this lab.

Exercises

This Hands-On Lab comprises the following exercise:

  1. Developing the Reseller Sales Cube

Estimated time to complete this lab: 45 minutes.

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Downloads

Download The Offline Training Kit
Download Hands-on Lab Document (DOCX)
Download Hands-on Lab Source Files

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