Summary


Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you! That should be your mantra as you ponder the possibilities in the security space. In this chapter, you have seen many possible approaches to keeping your data secure. You learned about applying permissions to your relational data sources to help keep them secure, and about how you can restrict access to data in your Analysis Services databases using one of two types of restriction — dimension security and cell security. You learned the techniques of applying dimension security, like how to define roles and how to manage security in a dynamic business environment. Further, you learned about the relevant design choices and how they can be implemented in a real business scenario. You learned how to apply cell security to restrict data at the cell level for certain defined roles at your company. That technique can prevent members of the targeted roles from seeing confidential information. With all that information and the samples demonstrated in this chapter, you should have a good grasp of the techniques and challenges associated with security in Analysis Services.

It was our goal with this book to get you to learn through hands-on work which started as early as Chapter 2. Our other goal was to get you to learn through interaction with sample scenarios, of which there were two, "real-time OLAP" and "dimensions and cell security." We sincerely hope that these goals to engage you for a more powerful learning experience were realized. Less critical, but still important, was the need to impart our sense of possibility and excitement about the powerful user interface and complete SQL Server Business Intelligence stack. Like any software system, it has its strengths and weaknesses, but taken as a whole, the strengths far out-weigh the weaknesses. What you can accomplish using this environment is nothing less than profound. Decide what you want to accomplish and then figure out how to do it using the appropriate tools — chances are very good the system will accommodate your plans. Where possible we threw in some business education — knowing all the while it would not be comprehensive — just to stimulate your appetite for business knowledge. We strongly encourage you to follow up on that aspect of your education moving forward.

We hope you enjoyed this book and learned a lot from it. Please do email any comments about the book to us, positive or negative. We plan to upload additional samples and/or white papers on the web site associated with this book based on requests from readers, so don't be shy. Please do check the book's web site periodically.



Professional SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 with MDX
Professional SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 with MDX (Programmer to Programmer)
ISBN: 0764579185
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 176

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