Materializing the cubes, absence of CREATE CUBE

Hi all,

(1) Does making a cube through Cube Wizard in Visual Studio imply materialiing the view
in a database?

I created a cube in AdventureWorksDW sample database. There is no error after I
deployed the project. Still the size of data files and transaction-log files of database
remain the same.

(2) Is the cube materialized? Can we materialize cubes?

(3) Shall Microsoft introduce operation CREATE CUBE in the MDX? I saw only
ALTER CUBE, CREATE SUBCUBE, and DROP SUBCUBE in online book.

Thank you,

Bernaridho

1) No

2) Yes, you can take the cubes offline

3) http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms145581.aspx