SSAS Articles Security Dimension Security in Analysis Services 2005 (by Richard Tkachuk)
Dimension Security in Analysis Services 2005 (by Richard Tkachuk)
User Rating: / 0
PoorBest 
Written by Richard Tkachuk   
Tuesday, 01 May 2007 15:31

Analysis Services 2005 has two security models for securing data: dimension security and cell security. Dimension security is used to permit or deny access to members of a dimension and any data associated with those members. Cell security permits or denies access to cell values only.

For example, consider the example of a cube containing a customers dimension with a country attribute hierarchy and two measures, sales and expense.

Read more...