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If an applicable DSN does not exist, you can select New to open the Connectivity
Wizard and create a new DSN. The steps to create a new DSN with the Connectivity
Wizard are described in the section Creating a DSN for a data source, page 133.
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Type a User Name and Password that can connect to the data source.
The database user you provide becomes the owner of all tables and objects. The
database user is required to have the Select, Create, Insert, and Drop permissions.
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After providing a valid user name and password, you can click SQL Preview to
open the SQL Preview dialog box. This dialog box provides the SQL statements that
will be executed on your data source to create the statistics and Enterprise Manager
tables. Click Close once you are done reviewing the SQL statements to return to the
Configuration Wizard.
If you use the advanced options to change the SQL script, you can click SQL Preview
after selecting the new script to see an updated listing of the SQL statements that will
be executed.
To complete statistics and Enterprise Manager repositories creation
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Click Advanced. Options to specify a SQL script to create statistics tables are
displayed.
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In the Script field, a SQL script to create statistics and Enterprise Manager
repositories optimized for your database is selected. If you want to specify a different
script, click ... (the browse button) to browse to and select a customized script. For
more information on the default SQL scripts, see SQL scripts, page 150.
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Click Next. The Summary page opens.
10 Review the summary information.
You can click Save to save the configuration as a response (.ini) file to configure
statistics repositories on other systems or to run silent configurations at a later time.
For information on running the Configuration Wizard with a response file, see
Configuring MicroStrategy with a response file, page 161.
11 Click Finish to apply the configuration and create the statistics repository. The
summary information is updated as the configurations are completed, providing a
way to track the progress of the configurations.
Once you are finished configuring Intelligence Server and your project sources, a
database instance to connect a project to a statistics repository must be created. If you
created the statistics repository as part of the same configuration routine to create a
metadata repository and the configuration is being done on a Windows environment, a
database instance is automatically created for the statistics repository. For information
on creating a database instance, see Creating a database instance, page 176.
SQL scripts
MicroStrategy has database-specific SQL scripts for creating metadata, History List, and
statistics tables. The scripts for each certified database platform are shipped with the
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