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Dealing with partition processing
options
Once you are happy with the dimensions' processed state, it's time to process parti-
tions, measure groups, and cubes.
Although you can process an entire measure group or even an entire cube, those op-
tions are rarely used. Instead you're likely to process only the most recent (perhaps
daily) partition in each measure group. If you use the
ProcessUpdate
incremental
dimension processing option, you will also need to rebuild indexes on some or all par-
titions in the affected measure groups.
The following table summarizes partition processing options:
Processing option
Description
Used for
This option empties out
the partition's contents to
"unprocess" it.
This option could be useful if
you're running out of disk
space on the data drive and
need to quickly free up some
space by unprocessing a
historically obsolete partition.
You can also use this option
if you find, and subsequently
fix, discrepancies in fact
data.
ProcessClear
The same option applies to
measure groups, cubes, and
databases. If a database is
particularly large, deleting it
could take an exceedingly
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