Chapter 55. To aggregate or not to aggregate—is there really a question?
Erin Welker
Aggregations have long been the key to gaining the best query performance from Analysis Services, yet they are commonly misunderstood. What, exactly, are aggregations? What is the best approach for designing aggregations? What tools are available to assist you with this task? What changes have occurred in the various releases of Analysis Services that affect your approach to aggregation design?
I hope to answer all of these questions and more in this chapter. Read on.
What are aggregations?
You can think of aggregations as precalculated answers to OLAP queries. Let’s take the scenario of a query on a cube with three dimensions—Product, Customer, and Sales ...
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