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Legacy DSO Applications
If you have experience with DSO (object model used for managing Analysis
Services 2000), we expect you will find AMO straightforward. The good news
is that if you have imported your Analysis Services 2000 database to Analysis
Services 2005, you can still make those client apps written for Analysis Ser-
vices 2000 work. This is accomplished using the version of DSO shipped with
Analysis Services 2000 Service Pack 4 along with some additions. We refer to
the DSO installed with SQL Server 2005 as DSO8.5. If you have an existing
DSO application you will be able to use that application to manage the up-
graded or migrated database as long as there has been no changes to the mi-
grated database using SQL Server 2005 tools. The overall architecture show-
ing how an existing DSO application can communicate with Analysis Services
2005 is shown in
Figure 12-32
.
Figure 12-32
When an existing DSO-based application attempts to connect to Analysis Ser-
vices 2005; DSO8.5 is used to make the connection. DSO 8.5 first tries to con-
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