You may find that processing the dimensions before processing the cubes will solve this.

I found that when automating the processing using an SSIS job  I had to make sure all...

The server is loated in a different city, when using RDC to connect I was not using a login with high enough priveleges. VNC onto the box let me use...

Keeping data and logs on different disks/volumes has a performance advantage when using local disks on your server as data read and write operations and log read and write operations...

I don't want multiple files. I want a seperate drive or volume for OS, datafiles and log files. So for a server with multiple databases the os drive would hold...

Yes we back up nightly and I do monitor space and truncate logs when they start getting overly large ,

but we also run an extraction from OLTP to OLAP...

thanks for the reply

I'm not sure he will buy that, as we have loads of apps and db's on the SAN I dont think the disk heads remain stationary due...