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Moving large OLAP databases where ARCHIVE doesn't work

Jon Pearce
9/29/2003 8:50:39 AM

sql server data warehouse:

I'm trying to move a large OLAP database (one cube's table is larger than 5
gigs) from the "development" server to the "user" server from which it will
be accessed. The ARCHIVE command on the development server tells me that
"one of the data files is too large to be stored inside a .cab file". If I
copy the files (without archiving them) to the user server in the
appropriate OLAP directories, they aren't visible in Analysis Manager on
that server, presumably because they aren't in the OLAP repository on that
server.

How can I do this? There must be a way to move an OLAP database without
using Archive, or to insert a database into the OLAP repository.

Thanks.

Jon Pearce

jpearce@remove_this_dgapartners.com

Re: Moving large OLAP databases where ARCHIVE doesn't work

Sean Boon
9/29/2003 1:10:24 PM

For this type of operation, you can use copy/paste and then reprocess the
data on the new server. If you just need to allow users to access the
"user" server (no administrative capabilities), you can just copy of the
data from the files as you did. Client applications can access the data in
the cubes without the information in the repository.

Sean

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Re: Moving large OLAP databases where ARCHIVE doesn't work

Bob Pfeiff [MS]
9/29/2003 1:56:21 PM

You need to move the repository to the destination Analysis Server along
with the data. The best bet is to stop the Analysis Server
(MSSQLServerOLAPService) service on the source server, copy the contents of
the Analysis Services Data folder, and copy the repository (msdmrep.mdb in
the Analysis Services Bin folder if the repository hasn't been migrated) to
the destination server. If you migrated the repository to SQL Server, then
you'll need to point the destination Analysis Server to the source Analysis
Server SQL Server repository, or copy the repository database
(backup/restore, detach/attach, DTS). You can edit the repository
connection string in the Analysis Manager.

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