Analysis Services 2008 R2 Operations Guide

Microsoft ha reso disponibile un nuovo ed interessantissimo whitepaper dedicato ad Analysis Services 2008 R2 (ma assolutamente fruibile anche da chi usare le versione 2005 o 2008), che è un must-read per tutti coloro che lavorano con SSAS:

The Analysis Services 2008R2 Operations Guide

Di seguito un’estratto degli argomenti:

• Memory Configuration
• Thread Pool and CPU Configuration
• Partitioning, Storage Provisioning and Striping
• Performance Monitor 
• Dynamic Management Views 
• Profiler Traces
• Data Collection Checklist
• Monitoring and Configuring Memory 
• Monitoring and Tuning I/O and File System Caches
• Monitoring the Network
• Testing Analysis Services Cubes 
• Firewalling the Server
• Encrypting Transmissions on the Network
• Encrypting Cube Files 
• Securing the Service Account and Segregation of Duties 
• File System Permissions 
• High Availability and Disaster Recovery 
• Backup/Restore 
• Clustered Servers 
• Tuning Processing Data 
• Tuning Process Index 
• Tuning Queries
• Locking and Blocking 
• Scale Out
• Server Maintenance
• Special Considerations
• Distinct Count