AS2000 has it's own engine for cube and query processing. When building or refreshing cubes. It is not a relational engine like SQL Server.

-Mike

>I'm looking a SQL Server's Analysis Services. It looks pretty good but I can't seem to find a straight answer to something.
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>Does Analysis Services have its own data engine, or does it use the engine of the DBMS it's connected to (i.e. Sql Server, Oracle, DB2)?
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>MS lists it as a "middle-tier server for online analytical processing and data mining". This indicates it acts as a data manager using OLE DB to link to a DBMS which performs the actual data manipultaion. This is how DTS works, but MS (nor anyone else) does not readily admit to this. Almost everything I've read about DTS *implies* that DTS does its own data work.
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>On the other hand, "Analysis Services provides server capabilities to create and manage OLAP cubes...". Since a data cube is essentially a set of aggregations of base data, creating a cube implies some kind of innate database functionality.
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>So which is it? Does Analysis Services have its own built in data engine or is it a big fancy OLE DB consumer?
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>TIA
>Thom C.