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3. Agenda Me Show of Hands! Partitions Synchronization
Integration Testing
Custom Assemblies
PowerShell Deployment – Pointers (if time permits)

4. ABOUT.ME/JENSVESTERGAARD
CatMan Solution A/S - BI
@vestergaardj

5. Show of Hands SSASMD? Uppers n’ Downers Tabular (on-premises)?
Azure Analysis Services?
Uppers n’ Downers
Greatest struggles?
Greatest wins!

6. PARTITIONING
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7. Partitioning
Symptoms?
Processing
Query
Data Management

8. Partitioning - Processing
What to do?
Read -> Process -> Write
Processing Speed
INT or DECIMAL, Yes! Floating Points, No!
Increase the amount of memory available for Analysis Services during processing of partitions.
Process fewer partitions in parallel.
Define smaller partitions.
Recommendation: a partition size containing between 5 and 20 million records.
Design fewer aggregations for your partition.
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9. Partitioning - Processing
ProcessFull;
ProcessData;
ProcessIndex;
ProcessClearIndexes;
ProcessAdd;
ProcessClear;
ProcessFull
=>
ProcessClear, ProcessData, and ProcessIndex.
Full: deletes existing partition data, indexes, and aggregations and fully reprocesses a partition.
Data: deletes existing partition data, indexes, and aggregations and loads only data in a partition.
Index: builds indexes and aggregations for a partition.
ClearIndexes: deletes partition indexes and aggregations.
Add: incrementally updates a partition by adding new data to it.
Clear: deletes partition data, indexes, and aggregations.

10. Partitioning - Processing
Partition Processing Load Speed (Rows Read/Sec)
2008: 50K OK, 100K Optimized
2016: 100 OK, 150K Optimized
OLE DB for SQL Server over Native Client
Increase the network Packet Size from 4096 bytes  to 32 Kbyte (32767).
JumboFrames – Network setting
Enter the Bios Power options menu and see if you can disable settings like ‘Processor Power Idle state’. 
In the Windows Control Panel, set the Server Power Plan to max. throughput

11. Partitioning - Query Improve IO Sub System Cube Size > 5 GB
Aggregation Design per Partition
Sweet spot vs No of Partitions to Manage
Test your partition schema

12. Partitioning – Manage Data
Storage Mode per Partition
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13. DEMO 1 of 4
PARTITIONING

14. Partitioning – Wrap up Analysis Services Store Procedure (ASSP)
John Tunnicliffe
PowerShell
Manual
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15. SYNCHRONIZATION
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16. Synchronization Why? How? Restore Robocopy Cowboy development
Built-in feature

17. Synchronization
What
User must be a member of the Analysis Services server administrator role on the Target server.
User must have Full Control permissions on the Source database.
TCP port 2383 must be open on both servers to allow remote connections between default instances.
Both the Source and Target server must be the same version.
Edition needs to be either Enterprise, Developer, or Business Intelligence.
Server mode must be identical on the two, either Tabular/Tabular or Multidimensional/Multidimensional.
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18. DEMO 2 of 4
Synchronization

19. Integration TESTING
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20. Integration Testing Benefits How?
Keep from seeing the same bug over and over again
Make sure you don’t break anything else
Check for performance degradation
How?
C#/VB.Net code in Visual Studio (Unit Test Project)

21. DEMO 3 of 4
Integration Testing

22. CUSTOM ASSEMBLIES
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23. Custom Assemblies When? How? What? Noteable: Security High Cardinality
Text Search in several attributes
Some NonEmpty scenarios (think T-SQL INNER JOIN)
How?
C#/VB.NET Assembly integrated with Analysis Services
DebugView (SysInternals)
What?
Show me the Money!
1.2M Products and we already see a significant difference
Noteable: Security

24. DEMO 4 of 4
Custom Assembly

25. Questions

26. RESOURCES Jens Vestergaard – Custom Assemblies:
Henk van der Valk – Processing Optimization:
Jens Vestergaard – Cube Synchronization
Microsoft – Unit Testing
Jens Vestergaard – Integration Testing

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