public/Unpublish-Cube.ps1

function Unpublish-Cube {
<#
    .SYNOPSIS
    Unpublish-Cube drops a tabular or multidimenstional cube from a SQL Server Analysis Services instance.
 
    .DESCRIPTION
    Unpublish-Cube drops a tabular or multidimenstional cube from a SQL Server Analysis Services instance.
 
    .PARAMETER Server
    Name of the SSAS server, including instance and port if required.
 
    .PARAMETER CubeDatabase
    The name of the cube database to be dropped.
 
    .EXAMPLE
    Unpublish-Cube -Server $ServerName -CubeDatabase $CubeName;
 
    .LINK
    https://github.com/DrJohnT/DeployCube
 
    .NOTES
    Written by (c) Dr. John Tunnicliffe, 2019 https://github.com/DrJohnT/DeployCube
    This PowerShell script is released under the MIT license http://www.opensource.org/licenses/MIT
#>

    [CmdletBinding()]
    param
    (
        [String] [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
        [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
        $Server,

        [String] [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
        [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
        $CubeDatabase
    )

    # only attempt to drop the cube if it actually exists!
    if ( Ping-SsasDatabase -Server $Server -CubeDatabase $CubeDatabase ) {
        $asCmd = "<Delete xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/analysisservices/2003/engine'><Object><DatabaseID>$CubeDatabase</DatabaseID></Object></Delete>";
        $returnResult = Invoke-ASCmd -Server $Server -Query $asCmd;
        if (-not ($returnResult -like '*urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-analysis:empty*')) {
            throw "Failed to drop cube $CubeDatabase";
        }
    }
}

New-Alias -Name Drop-Cube -Value Unpublish-Cube;