Process the Analysis Services Database
to Update Its Structure for Our Discretization Settings
We will process the Analysis Services database within
which we have been working, and then browse the Birth Date attribute members to
confirm that we have provided preliminary answers to the client’s stated
requirements.
1.
Right-click
the Analysis Services project atop the tree in the Solution Explorer.
2.
Select Process
... from the context menu that appears, as shown in Illustration 9.
Illustration 9: Select Process ... to Process the Analysis Services Project
3.
Click Yes on
the dialog asking if we would like to save changes, which appears as depicted
in Illustration 10.
Illustration 10: Click Yes to Save All Changes before Processing
Information updates on the server, and then the Process
Database dialog appears, as shown in Illustration 11.
Illustration 11: The Process Database Dialog Appears ...
4.
Click the Run
button on the dialog.
The Process
Progress viewer appears, and generates periodic status updates for various
processing events. When processing is complete, we see a Process succeeded message
appear in the Status bar in the lower part of the viewer, as depicted in Illustration
12.
Illustration 12: Process Succeeded Message Appears ...
5.
Click the Close
button on the Process Progress viewer to dismiss the viewer.
6.
Click the Close
button on the Process Database dialog to dismiss the dialog.
We are now ready to return to the Dimension Designer
browser to examine the results of our work.
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