title: How do I add an existing database dimension to a second SSAS cube?
body: <p>Long-time SQL Server relational DBA building my second-ever cube in my first-ever SSAS database (using 2008 R2).  </p>
  
  <p>I am trying to add to that second cube a database dimension already associated with the first cube.  No matter how I launch it, the Add Cube Dimension dialog lists only the dimensions that have already been associated with the second cube, not the one I want (nor any others) already associated with the first cube.  Based on multiple web-search results, I was under the impression that database dimensions are designed to be added to multiple cubes within the same database, and that this should be easy.  What am I missing?</p>
  
  <p>I believe what I'm asking is nearly identical to the question posed <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7640326/how-to-share-a-dimension">here</a>, but I haven't had the same epiphany that the original poster did.  The table behind the dimension I want is already in the DSV.</p>