Best Practices for Building Tier 1 Enterprise Business Intelligence Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services

The purpose of this session is to highlight issues,best practices and lessons learned from a select group of SQL Server Enterprise customers. Some example of the customer projects we cover in this session: AdCenter and their 6TB SSAS environment: two 3TB OLAP cubes,XBox Live and their planned petabyte warehouse and cubes that go with it,issues include distinct count,and SSD drives. We also cover in detail technical issues surrounding: Analysis Services Scale Out Using Read-Only,Analysis Services ROLAP Case Study,and other exciting scalability and performance optimization techniques.