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Pro SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services (Expert's Voice in SQL Server) [Paperback]

Philo Janus (Author), Guy Fouche (Author)
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Book Description

Publication Date: 14 Jun 2010 | ISBN-10: 1430219955 | ISBN-13: 978-1430219958 | Edition: 1

Every business has reams of business data locked away in databases, business systems, and spreadsheets. While you may be able to build some reports by pulling a few of these repositories together, actually performing any kind of analysis on the data that runs your business can range from problematic to impossible. Pro SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services will show you how to pull that data together and present it for reporting and analysis in a way that makes the data accessible to business users, instead of needing to rely on the IT department every time someone needs a different report.

  • Accessible—With a single author's voice, this book conducts a guided tour through the technology that makes it easy to dive into.
  • Solution–oriented—While technically deep, the goal is to focus on practical application of the technologies instead of acting as a technical manual.
  • Comprehensive—This book covers every aspect of analysis services and ancillary technologies to enable you to make the most of SQL Server.

What you’ll learn

  • Understand the importance of online analytical processing and analysis services technologies.
  • Build cubes and dimensions that let you get business value out of large volumes of data.
  • Learn the fundamentals of MDX, the query language for advanced analysis.
  • Apply ancillary aspects of analysis services: KPIs, perspectives, and calculated members.
  • Apply basic data mining concepts—identify answers to questions you weren't even aware you should ask.
  • Learn the various ways to consume analysis services data (reporting services, Excel, and ProClarity).

Who this book is for

Pro SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services is aimed at developers who want to take advantage of SQL Server's built-in business intelligence functionality to mine their data and produce reports that can drive business forward in right and profitable directions. The book is secondarily aimed at database administrators charged with supporting analysis services solutions.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction to OLAP 
  2. Cubes, Dimensions, and Measures 
  3. SQL Server Analysis Services
  4. SSAS Developer and Admin Interfaces
  5. Creating a Data Source View
  6. Creating Dimensions
  7. Building a Cube 
  8. Deploying and Processing
  9. MDX219 10: Cube Features 
  10. Data Mining 
  11. PowerPivot 
  12. Administration
  13. User Interfaces

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About the Author

Philo Janus has been a technology specialist with Microsoft for five years. He has worked with federal and large enterprise customers on Office development technologies, business intelligence, and SQL Server implementations. He graduated from the US Naval Academy with a BSEE in 1989 to face a challenging career in the US Navy. After driving an aircraft carrier around the Pacific Ocean and a guided missile frigate through both the Suez and Panama Canals, and serving in the US Embassy in Cairo, a small altercation between his bicycle and an auto indicated a change of career (some would say that landing on his head in that accident would explain many things). Philo's software development career started with building a training and budgeting application in Access 2.0 in 1995. Since then he's worked with Oracle, Visual Basic, SQL Server, and .NET building applications for federal agencies, commercial firms, and conglomerates. In 2003 he joined Microsoft as a technology specialist evangelizing Office as a development platform.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This is THE book for Analysis Services 11 Oct 2010
By Andrew Nakamura - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
To date I had read them all and was disappointed in what was available. Understanding SSAS in a broad sense seemed cloudy and unclear and I read through most of MS books. When I finished a section from the other books I left with little comprehension and thought to myself to re-read sections. Even the exercises from MS step-by-step gave me a feeling of a monkey pushing buttons. In fact if you have one of those sections ask yourself can you do the same thing on the DimDate for DimGeography? I doubt I could because I didn't have a clear understanding conceptually of what was happening.

From the start of this book I could tell something was very different. Big examples, arrows and an easy and clear way to explain each concept. When I finished a section I could explain it back with ease using a different example. The examples aren't simply point, click, push and enter. I'll admit there are some like that, but that's AFTER a conceptual overview.

Take Dimension Design for example. They start off building a report in Excel 2007, ok yeah should be 2010, but whats nice is they're showing you via Excel, which gives you an idea how should be thinking in SSAS. There are links to other resources throughout the book so if you want more info on that subject they'll point you in the right direction. Its more hand holding for newbies but with you can breeze thru it if you already know it, but there a tidbits of notes that you may want to slow down as the authors gives their experience through the sections like SSAS on vmware.

You won't be disappointed with this book in your shelf!
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Good Documentation of Adventure works cube and database 6 Aug 2011
By sacha - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
This by far the worst book I ever read on SSAS. There is nothing Pro about this book or the concept. I would take this book as a general overview of Multidimensional database implementation using various Microsoft tools. Step by Step Analysis Services 2008 is so much better that this with practical examples and How to's. Do not waste money buying this book.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Inadequate 7 Nov 2010
By Happy Shopper - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
Sorry but this did not feel at all like an "Expert's Voice". I generally read the book first before I ever touch the tool (in this case SSAS), and I can tell when I'm getting enough information to be able to successfully use the tool. I wasn't, and couldn't. The chapter on dimensions is especially weak, and this is an essential part of cube design.
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