Introduction to MSSQL Server Analysis Services: Process Analysis Services Cubes with DTS

Introduction to MSSQL Server Analysis Services: Process Analysis Services Cubes with DTS: "In this article, we will examine the processing of an Analysis Services cube via another of the integrated MSSQL Server components, Data Transformation Services ('DTS'). Virtually anyone that works with MSSQL Server in an RDBMS context, and often within a data warehouse or mart design perspective and related functions, has probably interacted in some way with DTS - if only as an Import / Export utility. Best known as the set of ETL (Extraction, Transformation and Load) utilities that accompany the integrated Microsoft BI Solution as a part of MSSQL Server, DTS does, indeed, perform well within the context of all of the stages of data transformation (examples include type conversions, scrubbing and validation, among others, to varying degrees. DTS also maintains a particularly high-profile role within the creation and maintenance of a data warehouse, mart, or other such source for business intelligence and organizational reporting."