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Case Study #1 -
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Background -
Wide World Importers imports and sells clothing. The company has a multidimensional Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services instance. The server has 80 gigabytes (GB) of available physical memory. The following installed services are running on the server:
✑ SQL Server Database Engine
✑ SQL Server Analysis Services (multidimensional)
The database engine instance has been configured for a hard cap of 50 GB, and it cannot be lowered. The instance contains the following cubes: SalesAnalysis,
OrderAnalysis.
Reports that are generated based on data from the OrderAnalysis cube take more time to complete when they are generated in the afternoon each day. You examine the server and observe that it is under significant memory pressure.
Processing for all cubes must occur automatically in increments. You create one job to process the cubes and another job to process the dimensions. You must configure a processing task for each job that optimizes performance. As the cubes grown in size, the overnight processing of the cubes often do not complete during the allowed maintenance time window.

SalesAnalysis -
The SalesAnalysis cube is currently being tested before being used in production. Users report that day name attribute values are sorted alphabetically. Day name attribute values must be sorted chronologically. Users report that they are unable to query the cube while any cube processing operations are in progress. You need to maximize data availability during cube processing and ensure that you process both dimensions and measures.

OrderAnalysis -
The OrderAnalysis cube is used for reporting and ad-hoc queries from Microsoft Excel. The data warehouse team adds a new table named Fact.Transaction to the cube. The Fact.Transaction table includes a column named Total Including Tax. You must add a new measure named Transactions Total Including Tax to the cube. The measure must be calculated as the sum of the Total Including Tax column across any selected relevant dimensions.

Finance -
The Finance cube is used to analyze General Ledger entries for the company.

Requirements -
You must minimize the time that it takes to process cubes while meeting the following requirements:
✑ The Sales cube requires overnight processing of dimensions, cubes, measure groups, and partitions.
✑ The OrderAnalysis cube requires overnight processing of dimensions only.
✑ The Finance cube requires overnight processing of dimensions only.
You need to create the cube processing job and the dimension processing job.
Which processing task should you use for each job? To answer, drag the appropriate processing tasks to the correct locations. Each processing task may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content.
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Suggested Answer:
Box 1: ProcessData -
Processes data only without building aggregations or indexes. If there is data is in the partitions, it will be dropped before re-populating the partition with source data.

Box 2: Process Update -
Forces a re-read of data and an update of dimension attributes. Flexible aggregations and indexes on related partitions will be dropped.
References:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/analysis-services/multidimensional-models/processing-options-and-settings-analysis-services

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othman_ee
4 years, 4 months ago
1. Process Data 2. Process Update
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clement_
4 years, 5 months ago
My Answer: Process Add Process Update Since when does "Process Data" is considered "incremental" ? The docs for it says ". If there is data is in the partitions, it will be dropped before re-populating the partition with source data."
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Cococo
4 years, 6 months ago
Let's do it one by one: Clear - no Update - only for Dimensions - second box Index - not enough Add - doesn't work for Cubes Data - more or less (it is not going to add indexes and aggregations) Structure - "If the cube is unprocessed, Analysis Services will process, if it is necessary, all the cube's dimensions". This will not process measures. Looks like there should be another option, something like Default...
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Cococo
4 years, 6 months ago
There is a chance that the answer for the Cube is simple - Incremental? - process add, and you can deploy and process all new changes manually, don't need to do this every day..
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Cococo
4 years, 6 months ago
sorry, Process Data :) Add is not for cubes
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julie2020
4 years, 7 months ago
What is the correct answer for this question?
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Jrestrepo
4 years, 10 months ago
For the Incremental cube processing job, the processing task should be "Process Structure" (because there were structural changes done to both the "Sales Analysis" and the the "Order Analysis" cubes. And for the "Incremental dimension processing" job, the processing task should be "Process Add" (Because it adds new members, and a measure was created). Any thoughts? For measure groups and partitions, adds newly available fact data and process only to the relevant partitions.
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Cococo
4 years, 6 months ago
"SalesAnalysis cube ... You need to maximize data availability during cube processing and ensure that you process both dimensions and measures." Process structure for cubes will not touch the measures.
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Jrestrepo
4 years, 10 months ago
Is it me, but these questions are so not fair. Are they using the terms: "Processing tasks" and "Processing Options" interchangebly? Looking at this questions closely, there were structural changes done to the "Order Analysis" cube (a new table and measure was added). The case also states that the "Sale Analysis" cube was being tested. In both these case you would use "Process Full", which by the way is not on the list of "Processing task" given.
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Jrestrepo
4 years, 10 months ago
Both jobs can use "process data", right?
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CYRUSD
4 years, 10 months ago
For Dimension, And to have it updated faster. I believe Process Update is correct.
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