| | |  | Software Engineering | Home » » » Professional Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2008 with MDX (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | - 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
| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Sivakumar Harinath | | Paperback:
| 1056 pages | | Publisher:
| Wrox | | Publication Date:
| March 16, 2009 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0470247983 | | Product Length:
| 8.83 inches | | Product Width:
| 7.9 inches | | Product Height:
| 2.25 inches | | Product Weight:
| 3.44 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.1 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.4 inches | | Package Height:
| 2.3 inches | | Package Weight:
| 3.6 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 5 reviews |
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10 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 End-to-End Microsoft BI book for professional consultantsJun 30, 2009
By Binh N. Cao
"Binh Cao"
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.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Not very comprehensiveJul 26, 2011
By Antonio
On a first glance, it appears to be a great book. However, it turns out that it's a complete waste of time and hardly touching on MDX. Too general and directed those who want a broad idea on how SSAS works. This is the first time I get disappointed with WROX. Don't spend more than £10 on it.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Good bookJan 05, 2010
By Baya
"Baya"
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.
Perhaps the title is misleadingSep 04, 2011
By Ron Davis
"USMC 67-71 OOHRAH!"
This is an excellent book that does a great job of explaining some rather exoteric concepts. The authors may suffer from being too close to the topic to have named the book. By that I mean having MDX in the title may give the impression that the book was focused on writing queries with MDX which it is not. They, the authors, know that SSAS uses MDX internally which I think is why they put MDX in the title.
If you want to get beyond basic querying with MDX it would behoove you to know more about SSAS then the syntax of a Select statement and this book will server that purpose wonderfully.
0 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 It's OKDec 12, 2009
By L. P. Mccurdy
"Curds"
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.
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