Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services is definitive guide to programming Analysis Services 2005. It will give you unparalleled insight into the ways in which Analysis Services functions straight from the members of the Analysis Services team at Microsoft . It not only explains ways to use Analysis Services 2005 to design and create multidimensional objects, databases, dimensions, cubes, but it also provides invaluable information about the reasons behind design decision taken by the development team.
Chapters include:
- Introduction to Analysis Services
- Creating Multidimensional Models using Analysis Services
- Security
- High availability
- Localization and Globalization
PART I: Introduction to Analysis Services
PART II: Creating Multidimensional Models
PART III: Using MDX to Analyze Data
PART IV: Creating a Data Warehouse
PART V: Bringing Data into Analysis Services
PART VI: Analysis Server Architecture
PART VII: Accessing Data in Analysis Services
PART VIII: Security
PART IX: Management