Batch processing is available in Analysis Services. Which means we can send multiple processing commands to the server in just a single SQL Server Job. With SSAS batch processing we can control which objects to be processed and in what order in a batch. As batch processing reduces the amount of time taken to commit changes it offers better data availability. We can easily generate XMLA codes for batch processing through SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio). You might see lots of discussions about this in other websites and lots of them are saying you need to right click on the objects one by one and generate the scripts. Then put all scripts together in another XMLA script. But it is such a pain when you have lots of objects that should be selected one after another to generate the batch processing XMLA. Sadly, it is not the end of the story. You need put all scripts together by copying and pasting the scripts several times. Today I want to show you a very easy to the job which saves lots of your time.
I’m using “Adventure Works 2012 Multidimensional” as an example and I’m going to batch process some dimensions.
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Connect to the SSAS server from Management Studio
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Expand the database
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Expand dimensions
