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You need to implement the aggregation designs for the cube. What should you do?
The correct answer is B. Use the Aggregation Design Wizard. The Aggregation Design Wizard in SSAS is the purpose-built tool for designing pre-calculated aggregations that improve cube query performance.
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You need to implement the aggregation designs for the cube. What should you do?
Options
- AUse the CREATE CACHE statement.
- BUse the Aggregation Design Wizard.
- CCreate relational indexes on the source tables.
- DUse the Usage-Based Optimization Wizard.
How the community answered
(44 responses)- A5% (2)
- B93% (41)
- C2% (1)
Why each option
The Aggregation Design Wizard in SSAS is the purpose-built tool for designing pre-calculated aggregations that improve cube query performance.
The CREATE CACHE statement pre-loads dimension data into memory for faster dimension queries but does not design or create measure aggregations.
The Aggregation Design Wizard guides you through selecting which dimension attribute combinations to pre-aggregate in an SSAS multidimensional cube, balancing storage cost against query performance gains. It uses a performance goal slider or explicit design options to generate an aggregation design that SSAS uses to answer MDX queries without scanning full fact data.
Relational indexes optimize queries against the underlying source tables in the relational database, not the aggregations within the SSAS cube itself.
The Usage-Based Optimization Wizard tunes an existing aggregation design by analyzing logged query workloads - it requires an existing design and query log, making it unsuitable for initial aggregation design.
Concept tested: SSAS Aggregation Design Wizard for cube optimization
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/analysis-services/multidimensional-models/designing-aggregations-analysis-services
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