Dynamic management of SSAS partitions - part 2

Here we are in the 2th part of this article where there is less blah blah but more practice (putting our hands in the leg !!)

In this part, I will explain the step by step operations to create the cube partitions in a dynamic way.

  • Step 1 :

First, prepare the test data, for that, we will work with the database and the cube AdventureWorksDW, you can download the sources as well as the deployment scripts from the links below:

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Dynamic management of SSAS partitions - part 1

Working on a data warehouse at a high volume can cause us performance problems to process or query the SSAS Cube.

To remedy this kind of problem, you will have to partition the cube, but not just any old way, you really need to have a well-defined dynamic SSAS partitioning plan.

Let's see how we can design this plan in a BI project ☻

Before starting the implementation of this partitioning plan we will talk in this 1ère part of this article on the advantages and disadvantages of SSAS partitioning.

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