Product Description

Teach yourself the fundamentals of SQL Server Analysis Services—one step at a time. With this practical, learn-by-doing tutorial, you get the guidance you need to build flexible and powerful solutions that meet the analytical needs of your organization. Discover how to: •Start building cubes using the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Business Intelligence designers •Create dimensions and measure groups to build, browse, and modify OLAP cubes •Design objects to handle unique financial analysis requirements •Improve query performance with aggregations and user hierarchies •Customize cubes with multi-dimensional expressions (MDX) and other advanced design techniques •Use actions to integrate Web pages, reporting applications, and drillthrough capabilities with cubes •Manage role-based security and restrict data access •Deploy and maintain a database in a production environment CD features •All practice exercises and answer files •Fully searchable eBook 

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #85902 in Books
• Brand: Microsoft
• Published on: 2006-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Customer Reviews

A good beginners guide
This book is a good beginners guide to SSAS 2005. It covers the key elements of the software and how to use them. It has a nice tutorial set to demonstrate the features that the book describes. The only downside is that the book isn't very indepth. Many of the features need greater description and detail. But as a beginners guide it is very good.

An excellent 'how to' guide
This book delivers exactly what the title suggests it does, it is an excellent step by step guide, there is lots of 'how to' exercises throughout each chapter. Within 3 days of reading I had an understanding of the fundemental principals of an OLAP database and how AS 2005 fits that model, and within 5 days was able to start bringing together that knowledge to work with some degree of confidence with AS 2005 and the Business Intelligence Studio. If you're new to AS2005 and OLAP I would consider this as required reading. If you're just new to AS 2005 it proves as a very good guide as to what is where in the tool set.

Nice Introduction - but not complete
I liked the book for its extensive use of step-by-step tutorials but was disappointed to find nothing about data-mining, which is very much present in of Microsoft's official SSAS basic 3 day course, moc2791.