White Paper Summary

The recommendations in this white paper provide best practices for processing in Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 Analysis Services. These performance optimizations are based on real-world implementations with some of our top customers and partners who use SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services Enterprise Edition.

This document presents Analysis Services processing best practices recommendations in the following sections:

• Dimension Processing Best Practices

• Cube Processing Best Practices

• Parallel Processing Best Practices

• Troubleshooting Processing Best Practices

Written By: Denny Lee, Nicholas Dristas, Carl Rabeler