Cube Storage: Planning Partitions (Business Intelligence Development Studio Perspective) - Page 6November 18, 2009 Storage Location AssignmentWhether we choose remote or local partitioning, location of the partition storage is yet another criterion upon which to plan our partitions. We might, for example, plan to create a partition with local storage for current data that we might expect to query often; in contrast, we might plan to create a remote partition for the historical data of previous years, upon which we might expect only minimal need to perform queries. We noted earlier that we can design storage for a cube on the Partitions tab in Cube Designer. Moreover, we noted that we can configure storage and design aggregations separately for each partition in a measure group. We can also set default storage settings for any measure group. We can see sample Storage Location settings for a partition of the Internet Sales measure group by taking the following steps. 1. Right-click the Storage Location setting for the Internet_Sales_2003 partition (currently indicating Default). 2. Select Properties from the context menu that appears, as depicted in Illustration 31.
The Properties settings for the Internet_Sales_2003 partition appear underneath the Object Explorer, by default, in the lower right corner of the development environment, as shown in Illustration 32.
3. Scroll down in the Properties settings to the StorageLocation setting. 4. Click the label of the StorageLocation setting, to enable the ellipses (“...”) button on its immediate right, as depicted in Illustration 33.
5. Click the ellipses (“...”) button. The Partition Type Selection dialog for the Internet_Sales_2003 partition appears, as shown in Illustration 34.
We typically specify the Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services instance of the cube that owns the partition, as well as the Analysis Services instance that stores the data for the partition on the Processing and Storage Locations page of the Partition Wizard. (We get hands-on exposure to the Partition Wizard in independent articles of this subseries, where we see that we can define a partition as a remote partition by specifying either a remote Analysis Services instance or a storage location other than the default storage location, among other possibilities.) The Processing and Storage Location settings on the Partition Type Selection dialog can serve as potential bases for partition planning, in general. The settings, along with a description of each, appear in Table 2.
6. Click Cancel to close the Partition Type Selection dialog without saving any changes, and to return, once again, to the Partitions tab of the Cube Designer. |
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