| SAS/MDDB Server Administrator's Guide |
A Distributed Multidimensional Metadata (DMM) definition
for a given application consists of a Data Group definition and, optionally,
one or more Server definitions.
A Data Group definition describes a logical MDDB
and consists of one or more Data Source definitions. Each Data
Source definition points to the storage location of one or more subcubes or
aggregation levels. Each subcube, or part of a subcube, may be in a different
location or storage format. For example, a Data Group can consist of multiple
MDDBs, SUMMARY procedure output tables, SAS views, and other data sources
that can be located on both local and remote servers.
A Server definition is a logical view
on a remote
SAS session. It is defined by the required SAS/CONNECT software options, including
host name and address and the supported communications protocol. Additionally,
you can specify processing options including standard or compute server processing,
the location of SAS code to submit immediately after establishing the connection,
and other options. Server definitions are required only with non-local data
sources.
There are three ways to set up a DMM definition:
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