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OLAP Cube Documentation in SSRS part 3
September 29^th, 2010 in Analysis Services, Blog, Business Intelligence, Reporting Services, SQL Server
This is the 3rd and final post in this series of blog posts, showing how you can use SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), DMVs and spatial data to generate real time automated user guide documentation for your Analysis Services (SSAS) OLAP cube. Part 1 – Creating the DMV stored procs Part 2 – Create the SSRS reports Part 3 – Use spatial data and maps to create a star schema view Download Source Code UPDATE: I presented a 1…
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OLAP Cube Documentation in SSRS part 2
September 27^th, 2010 in Analysis Services, Blog, Business Intelligence, Reporting Services, SQL Server
In my previous post I described how to create a number of stored procedures that use Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) to return the metadata structure of an SSAS 2008 OLAP cube, including dimensions, attributes, measure groups, BUS matrix etc. In this post I’m going to use those procs to create a set of SSRS 2008 reports that will serve as the automated documentation of your cube. I’m going to make the following assumptions:…
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OLAP Cube Documentation in SSRS part 1
September 25^th, 2010 in Analysis Services, Blog, Business Intelligence, Reporting Services, SQL Server
Being a business intelligence consultant, I like to spend my time designing data warehouses, ETL scripts and OLAP cubes. An unfortunate consequence of this is having to write the documentation that goes with the fun techy work. So it got me thnking, is there a slightly more fun techy way of automating the documentation of OLAP cubes… There are some good tools out there such as BI Documenter, but I wanted a way of having more control over…
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