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ChrisR - 29 Aug 2005 23:38 GMT

Howdy all. I start a new DBA job next week and part of it will invlove Data
Warehousing. I have no experience in DW at all and dont think there are any
shortcuts to learning it. Between now and then, what would be some good key
fundamentals for me to learn of Analysis Services? Is dont really need/ want
to learn really in depth stuff at this point. I more want to just try to get
a firm understanding on the basics and give myself a good base to learn
from.

TIA, ChrisR

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Imtiaz Ullah - 30 Aug 2005 09:59 GMT

I suggest you look through the AS 'Analysis Manager and Concepts Tutorial'
in AS Manager.
It was the first thing i did a year ago and it got me off to a flyer.

The tutorial was very good, which is a first for Microsoft ;)

Try and post back if you need more pointers, but i'm sure others will offer
useful suggestions too.

Immy

> Howdy all. I start a new DBA job next week and part of it will invlove
> Data Warehousing. I have no experience in DW at all and dont think there
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Jim_OLAP - 30 Aug 2005 13:59 GMT

Chris,

Focus on cube partitioning, so read all you can about DSO and setting the
data slice for each partition in a cube.

In my opinion, it's the most important concept to grasp in Analysis Services.

HTH,

Jim

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