Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services

Jacobson, Reed

ISBN 10: 0735609047 / ISBN 13: 9780735609044

Published by Microsoft Press, Redmond, WA, 2000

About this Item

Microsoft Press, Redmond, WA, 2000; pp x11, 379; full index, numerous tables and figures, and with a CD of sample code and other tools; backstrip a little faded but otherwise a very good copy. The book is part of Microsoft's "Developer Learning Tools" series and is divided into three sections covering the conceptual framework for multidimensional data analysis, the language providing sophisticated multidimensional capability, and a section of advanced administration around matters to do with real world experience and including aspects such as optimising very large DBs or securing them.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services
• Publisher: Microsoft Press, Redmond, WA
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0735609047
• ISBN 13: 9780735609044
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Not relevant
• Weight: 864 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • ICT - Information and Communications Technology...

About this title

Synopsis

MICROSOFT® SQL SERVER™ 2000 ANALYSIS SERVICES STEP BY STEP shows Microsoft Excel and Access experts, IS managers, and database developers how to build applications that take advantage of the powerful data-analysis services in Microsoft SQL Server 2000. You’ll discover why these services make it easier to analyze huge amounts of data quickly, and you’ll learn how to develop a wide range of advanced dimensional-data applications—from enterprise reporting tools to advanced decision-support systems. The book’s easy-to-follow lessons begin with clear objectives and include real-world business examples, with a companion CD full of sample files that support each lesson.

This title shows you how to:

• Administer the Analysis Manager: Understand the fundamentals behind data dimensions and hierarchies, data warehousing, and the Microsoft Analysis Services architecture, and use the Microsoft Analysis Manager application to define and populate data cubes.
  
  
• Create and display cubes: Define and modify measures and dimensions. Design, build, process, and view cubes, from simple to advanced, with cube and dimension editors. Use Microsoft Excel PivotTable® Reports and the PivotTable List in Microsoft Excel to browse cubes, and create cubes using Microsoft Office.
  
  
• Query cubes: Use multidimensional expressions (MDX) values and sets and the MDX Sample application to query and display dimensional data.
• Perform advanced administration: Choose data storage options and the Storage Design Wizard to optimize, manage, and update data efficiently. Automate the Analysis server to process an OLAP database. Work with partitions and automate updates, and apply security to cubes.

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About the Author

OLAP Train is a curriculum-development company that specializes in OLAP and related data-warehousing technologies. Microsoft licenses OLAP Train's courseware for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 worldwide as Microsoft Official Curriculum titles.

Reed Jacobson is a senior architect in Hitachi Consulting’s Business Intelligence practice. He has authored several training courses and books, including Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services Step by Step.