SSAS Articles Design Basket Analysis using Analysis Services 2005
Basket Analysis using Analysis Services 2005
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Written by Sacha Tomey   
Thursday, 23 August 2007 19:26

Basket Analysis using Analysis Services 2005 many-to-many relationship.

Today I've been looking at satisfying some basket analysis type requirements where, for example, we need to determine what other products customers have bought in addition to a known product.

We could have used data mining for this but decided not to as, in this case, it literally was a few mouse clicks away from our existing AS2005 cube.

The implementation was surprisingly straight forward and query results (admittedly on a subset of the full dataset) very impressive.

In an attempt to outline the implementation steps I will add some basket analysis to the Adventure Works sample database to demonstrate how easy it was !

 

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