[I'm re-posting this in the hopes that someone will respond ]

i'm new to OLAP on Analysis Service.

i'm working on an OLAP project for my company and i'm doing
performance testing of query times so i obviously need full and clear
control over all types of query caching.

i know that the server does some query caching, but what i want to
know is how to clear it and control its behaviour.

i've read that you can clear the *client* cache (PTS) with:

REFRESH CUBE [MyCubeName]

but does this also reset the server cache? doesn't seem to.

and i've also read that you can clear the *server* cache by resetting
the MS OLAP service (Win2K or XP). is this true? this method seems
to work for me (i.e. i observer that query times slow down for a
period after i reset the MS OLAP service and then they speed up again
after some amount of querying).

are there other ways to reset the server cache? i do know that any
type of cube processing (incremental, full, refresh) seems to reset
the cache.

also, how does the "CACHE" MDX keyword relate to all this? thanks!

also -- can someone point me to *any* documentation about server-side
caching with MS Analysis Services. the more detail the better.

thanks very much!