Overview
- Authors:
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Mark Whitehorn
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University College Worcester, Worcester, UK
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Robert Zare
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Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, USA
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Mosha Pasumansky
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Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, USA
- Co-written with two members of Microsoft's Analysis Services team
- One of the first books available on MDX to include the latest release of Analysis Services
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Table of contents (21 chapters)
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- Mark Whitehorn, Robert Zare, Mosha Pasumansky
Pages 1-28
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- Mark Whitehorn, Robert Zare, Mosha Pasumansky
Pages 29-34
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- Mark Whitehorn, Robert Zare, Mosha Pasumansky
Pages 35-52
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- Mark Whitehorn, Robert Zare, Mosha Pasumansky
Pages 53-57
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- Mark Whitehorn, Robert Zare, Mosha Pasumansky
Pages 58-79
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- Mark Whitehorn, Robert Zare, Mosha Pasumansky
Pages 80-98
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- Mark Whitehorn, Robert Zare, Mosha Pasumansky
Pages 99-109
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- Mark Whitehorn, Robert Zare, Mosha Pasumansky
Pages 110-118
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- Mark Whitehorn, Robert Zare, Mosha Pasumansky
Pages 119-127
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- Mark Whitehorn, Robert Zare, Mosha Pasumansky
Pages 128-137
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- Mark Whitehorn, Robert Zare, Mosha Pasumansky
Pages 138-150
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- Mark Whitehorn, Robert Zare, Mosha Pasumansky
Pages 151-155
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- Mark Whitehorn, Robert Zare, Mosha Pasumansky
Pages 156-161
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- Mark Whitehorn, Robert Zare, Mosha Pasumansky
Pages 162-185
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- Mark Whitehorn, Robert Zare, Mosha Pasumansky
Pages 186-200
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- Mark Whitehorn, Robert Zare, Mosha Pasumansky
Pages 201-211
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- Mark Whitehorn, Robert Zare, Mosha Pasumansky
Pages 212-219
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- Mark Whitehorn, Robert Zare, Mosha Pasumansky
Pages 220-250
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- Mark Whitehorn, Robert Zare, Mosha Pasumansky
Pages 251-262
About this book
IloveBusinessIntelligence.IloveBIbecauseitisallaboutbecomingbetter. BI is all about empowering us with knowledge and that knowledge is the power to realize our full potential. As Zorge the spy said, “knowledge is power”, and who doesn’t love to have the power to know, to understand and to make intelligent decision? I do. Since the dawn of the modern information system it was obvious that the information accumulated in the machine is wasted if there is no way to analyze it and learn from it. From as early as the 1950s, data analysis systems and, later, decision support systems were designed, developed anddeployedwiththatintent.However,onlyinthelastdecadehavethese systems become both reasonably affordable and mainstream and their business impact indisputable. The last decade has also seen the emergence of OLAP as the centerpiece of the BI technologies. The OLAP multidimensional databases combine incredible performance with unsurpassed analytical power and, in my opinion, are the foundation of the BI platform. While the performance differences between the multidimensional da- bases and the traditional relational databases are very significant, Moore’s law, which states that the hardware computing power doubles every 18 months, renders this advantage of the OLAP databases temporary. Sooner or later, the raw computing power of the common server machines will be sufficient to provide the performance needed for sophisticated analysis even when the data is stored in a relational database.
