What are cubes and how will they benefit me?
A. A cube is a specialized database that is optimized to combine, process, and summarize large amounts of data in order to provide answers to questions about that data in the shortest amount of time. This allows users to analyze, compare, and report on data in order to spot business trends, opportunities, and problems. A cube uses pre-aggregated data instead of aggregating the data at the time the user submits a query.