Professional Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2008 with MDX (ePub)

Introduction. Part I: Introduction. Chapter 1: Introduction to Data Warehousing and SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services. Chapter 2: First Look at Analysis Services 2008. Chapter 3: Introduction to MDX. Chapter 4: Working with Data Sources and Data Source Views. Chapter 5: Dimension Design. Chapter 6: Cube Design. Chapter 7: Administering Analysis Services. Part II: Advanced Topics. Chapter 8: Advanced Dimension Design. Chapter 9: Advanced Cube Design. Chapter 10: Advanced Topics in MDX. Chapter 11: Extending MDX Using External Functions. Chapter 12: Data Writeback. Part III: Advanced Administration and Performance Optimization. Chapter 13: Programmatic and Advanced Administration. Chapter 14: Designing for Performance. Chapter 15: Analyzing and Optimizing Query Performance. Part IV: Integration with Microsoft Products. Chapter 16: Data Mining. Chapter 17: Analyzing Cubes Using Microsoft Office Components. Chapter 18: Using Data Mining with Office 2007. Chapter 19: Integration Services. Chapter 20: Reporting Services. Part V: Scenarios. Chapter 21: Designing Real-Time Cubes. Chapter 22: Securing Your Data in Analysis Services. Chapter 23: Inventory Scenarios. Chapter 24: Financial Scenarios. Chapter 25: Web Analytics. Appendix A: MDX Functions. Index.

Sivakumar Harinath was born in Chennai, India. Siva has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His thesis title was "Data Management Support for Distributed Data Mining of Large Datasets over High Speed Wide Area Networks." Siva has worked for Newgen Software Technologies (P) Ltd., IBM Toronto Labs, Canada; National Center for Data Mining, University of Illinois at Chicago; and has been at Microsoft since February of 2002. Siva started as a Software Design Engineer in Test (SDET) in the Analysis Services Performance Team and currently is a Senior Test Lead in the Analysis Services team. Siva's other interests include high - performance computing, distributed systems, and high-speed networking. Siva is married to Shreepriya and has twins, Praveen and Divya. His personal interests include travel, games, and sports (in particular carrom, chess, racquet ball, and board games). You can reach Siva at Sivakumar.harinath@microsoft.com. Matt Carroll is currently a Senior Development Lead on the SQL Server Integration Services team at Microsoft. Prior to this, he spent 10 years working on the SQL Server Analysis Services team as a developer and then development lead. He's presented on Analysis Services at VSLive and compiled and edited the whitepaper "OLAP Design Best Practices for Analysis Services 2005." Sethu Meenakshisundaram has more than 20 years of Enterprise System Software Development experience. Sethu spent a good portion of his career at Sybase Inc. in architecture, development, and management building world class OLTP and OLAP Database Systems. Sethu was instrumental in developing and leading highly complex clustered systems of Adaptive Server Enterprise. Early in the '90s, Sethu developed a version of Sybase Adaptive Server running on the Windows platform. Most recently he was an Architect in the SQL Server BI team driving technology and partner strategy. Prior to Microsoft, Sethu managed all of Server development as Senior

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