Administrator’s Guide

The purpose of the Administrator’s Guide is to instruct and assist administrators of Microsoft® SQL Server™ OLAP Services. Administrators’ duties may include:

• Designing, building, and maintaining a data warehouse.
• Creating and maintaining multidimensional structures within OLAP Services.
• Maintaining security on multidimensional structures.

The Administrator’s Guide is a companion to the Administrator’s Reference.

The Administrator’s Guide contains the following topics:

• Data Warehousing and OLAP

  Provides an overview of data warehouses and online analytical processing (OLAP).

• Implementing an OLAP Solution

  Describes the OLAP tools and objects provided with OLAP Services.

• The OLAP Manager

  Describes the user interface for OLAP Services and procedures for creating and maintaining OLAP objects.

• Security

  Describes security for OLAP Services.