Creating an Analysis Services Project

Lecturer : Mulondo Edward

Introduction
Here we shall use Business Intelligence Development Studio to create a new Microsoft Analysis Services project named LearnMSBI, based on the Analysis Services Project template. A project is a collection of related objects. Projects exist within a solution, which includes one or more projects.

Steps to create a new Analysis Services project

Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Microsoft SQL Server 2008, and then click SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio. The Microsoft Visual Studio development environment opens.

Steps to create a new Analysis Services project

On the File menu of Visual Studio, point to New, and then click Project. In the New Project dialog box, select Business Intelligence Projects in the Project types pane, and then select Analysis Services Project in the Templates pane.
Notice the default project name, the default solution name, and the default project location in the bottom of the dialog box. By default, a new directory will be created for the solution.

Steps to create a new Analysis Services project

Change the project name to LearnMSBI, which also changes the solution name, and then click OK. You have successfully created the LearnMSBI project, based on the Analysis Services Project template, within a new solution that is also named LearnMSBI.

Solution explorer showing order in which items are created