Incremental Update Wizard

Analysis Services

Analysis Services

Incremental Update Wizard

Use this wizard to update a partition in your cube with new data from a data source.

Caution  This wizard updates a partition. Incorrect use of partitions can result in inaccurate cube data. For more information, see Managing Partitions.

The Incremental Update Wizard appears when, in the Analysis Manager tree pane, you right-click your cube, click Process, and then in the Process a Cube dialog box, click Incremental update and then click OK.

The Incremental Update Wizard has the following steps:

  • Select the partition to update, if the cube has more than one partition.

  • Specify the data source and the fact table.

  • Create a filter expression.

  • Update the partition in your cube.