Teach yourself to use SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services for business intelligence—one step at a time. You'll start by building your understanding of the business intelligence platform enabled by SQL Server and the Microsoft Office System, highlighting the role of Analysis Services. Then, you’ll create a simple multidimensional OLAP cube and progressively add features to help improve, secure, deploy, and maintain an Analysis Services database. You'll explore core Analysis Services 2008 features and capabilities, including dimension, cube, and aggregation design wizards; a new attribute relationship designer; designer AMO warnings; and using dynamic management views to monitor resources. And as you complete each lesson, you can hone your skills using the practice exercises from the companion CD. Plus, you can review and download code samples illustrating the author’s own, professional techniques—direct from the companion Web site. For customers who purchase an ebook version of this title, instructions for downloading the CD files can be found in the ebook.
To Do This Test or learn the features of Reporting Services Use SQL Server 2008 Evaluation Edition in a singleserver deployment. ... click Service Account, specify a builtin or Windows user account and its password, and click Apply.
Teach yourself the Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) query language—one step at a time.
You will see a tree view of those databases you have saved on the server to date, as shown in Figure 7-1. One of those databases should be titled AnalysisServices2008Tutorial — you should take a moment to review the tree nodes and what ...
Teach yourself SQL Server 2008—one step at a time.
Annotation 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...
The original release plan was to include the OLAP server in the 1997 release of SQL Server 6.5. However, instead of rushing to market, Microsoft decided to give the development team more time to implement MDX and a new OLEDB for OLAP ...
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Design and implement fast, scalable and maintainable cubes with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services with this book and eBook
This hands-on guide will show you how to harness the full power of Reporting Services to create reporting and business intelligence solutions that meet your company's needs.
The book is designed in such a way that you can read it chapter by chapter or refer to recipes in no particular order. However, some of the recipes depend on each another. When this is the case, you will be notified.