Defining and Configuring Cubes and Cube Properties
Cubes are OLAP objects consisting of related measures and dimensions that you configure within an Analysis Services database. You can define and configure multiple cubes within a single database and each cube can use some or all of the same dimensions. You can also define a single cube that contains multiple measure groups in the same database rather than defining separate cubes. When you define a cube with multiple measure groups, you need to define how dimensions relate to each measure group and customize, as appropriate, dimension objects within each cube and measure group. When defining a cube, you also define advance cube properties, including calculations, KPIs, actions, partitions and aggregations, perspectives and translations. For information about defining and configuring cubes and cube properties, see Defining and Configuring Cubes and Cube Properties. For conceptual information about cubes and cube properties, see Cubes (Analysis Services).