Handling different Time Zones

Danik1994 at 07h55
29
Oct
2010
Handling different Time Zones

I have SSAS 2008 with sql server 2005 database as a source. Currently, we store all dates in UTC time and use system generated Time dimension in the cube.

Up until recently the granularity of a day was just fine for our needs.

Now ( I've been doing SSAS for just a month), I've been asked to redesign DateTime dimension so it allows for different time zones, as we need to send out reports to users in different time zones. I jus
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