Publication Date:March 16, 2009 Availability:Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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When used with the MDX query language, SQL Server Analysis Services allows developers to build full-scale database applications to support such business functions as budgeting, forecasting, and market analysis.
Shows readers how to build data warehouses and multi-dimensional databases, query databases, and use Analysis Services and other components of SQL Server to provide end-to-end solutions
Revised, updated, and enhanced, the book discusses new features such as improved integration with Office and Excel 2007; query performance enhancements; improvements to aggregation designer, dimension designer, cube and dimension wizards, and cell writeback; extensibility and personalization; data mining; and more
Customer Reviews: Good bookJanuary 5, 2010 Baya(New York, NY United States) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Buyers - be aware, you need this book. Analysis Services is a huge product and it's impossible to cover all aspects of it. But this is a 1000 pages well worth your time and money.
If there was one thing that could be improved about this book it would be adding even more, complete examples. On a few occasions the book says "we'll let you (the reader) explore this functionality". With all examples the book could easily have been over 1500 pages long.
It's OKDecember 12, 2009 L. P. Mccurdy(San Ramon, CA) 0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I admit I haven't spent a lot of time with it yet, but it hasn't answered some of the questions I have anyway re using MDX with SSAS. I would like more examples too. Hopefully I'l find a use for it eventually.
End-to-End Microsoft BI book for professional consultantsJune 30, 2009 Binh N. Cao(San Diego, CA) 8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I am a microsoft professional consultant who makes a living working with Microsoft BI toolsets. I find this book of tremendous value because of the contents and because of who wrote it. The authors are part of the SSAS product group as well as http://www.sqlcat.com team (the #1 BI application team that takes on the world's largest and greatest database and Business Intelligent design challenges and delivers great designs and success stories)...this is the best of the best at Microsoft. I read the book end-to-end. I can tell you that the MDX, performance tuning, and scenario chapters alone, are worth the price of the book many times over. This book helped me succeed in my job and go further than other consultants. I would highly recommend this book to "professional" consultants. Beginners who want to learn the fundamentals to MSFT BI would benefit greatly from this best-practices microsoft team.
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