Analysis Services Help

I'm looking for some modest help in developing some MDX queries in Analysis Services against a datacube I've built.
Would anyone be willing to answer some specific e-mail on this? I am willing to provide a small honorarium for some timely help here.Unless there are disclosure issues you may have the best help from posting your questions here (Most likely, if you contact those who are most helpful, many will not refuse whatever you might wish to donate via paypal, etc.)?|||Originally posted by DBA
Unless there are disclosure issues you may have the best help from posting your questions here (Most likely, if you contact those who are most helpful, many will not refuse whatever you might wish to donate via paypal, etc.)?

I'm not too concerned about disclosure issues. I was mostly concerned about the detail involved. Providing enough context for someone to help me is going to be somewhat involved, and I'm not sure exactly what questions I need to ask. I was hoping for some assistance that might be a bit more iterative than is really practical (and perhaps appropriate) with a public web-based forum.

Given the suggestion, I'll try and work up a summary and sub-scenario and see if anyone is interested in helping (and perhaps helping more).

Thanks!

Analysis Services Architecture

We have a large cube (over 500GB) and several other relatively small cubes built using AS 2000. We are now in the process of upgrading the environment. Basically we are going to buy new infrastructure and use AS 2005. And the OS is most likly XP. The large cube is the one that is widely used in the company by at least over 200 people. Small cube has very few users. My question is what is the best architecture we can use

1. Whether to use one large machine and then have one instance of AS. All cubes are to be migrated to this instance. Issue with this option, we can not makesure we give more resources to the important cube.

2. Have multiple instances of the AS running on the server. Use MS Resource manager (new product shipped with XP server) to manage the resources. Has anyone used MS resource manager or aware of any issue with it ?

3. Use clustered environment - I do not know how use this to allocate more resources to the important cube. Any thoughts ?

Much appreciate, any pointers on what we are trying to achieve here .

Thank you

It is hard to make any suggestion based on short description only.
But if you are going to have several smaller cubes, queried not often, it probably Ok to consolidate them with the bigger cube on the same server.
Your risks are whenever smaller cubes are queried, the bigger cube will see some slowdown. Again, you might be Okay with consolidating them together. Just make sure you give it excess capacity. Try it, test it.

HTH
Edward.
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