Thanks to everyone who made it to my session at SqlBits. I’m hanging around the event so feel free to ping my on twitter (@bob_duffy) if you want to chat about Cube Processing over a beet at the event. I love discussing the challenges of cube processing and swapping notes on how to optimise !! … Continue reading Optimising Cube Processing @SqlBits
Tag: SSAS
Bitmap Indexes (*.map files) play an important role within Analysis Services. They provide a mechanism for the storage engine sub cube event to efficiently locate the relevant segments within the fact file without having to scan the whole thing. This is how you can have a 20 GB *.fact file in the partition but still … Continue reading How to turn off/on bitmap indexes in SSAS