distributed databases

The book provides an excellent step by step tutorial for the Analysis services. It is good for those who can learn by experiencing with the application. It will not be good for people with no or low knowledge in OLAP.

It is written in easy english and full with screen shots that help you read it even if you are not in front of your machine.

I recommnd!

After digging thru most SQL Server DBA books without finding much if any coverage of how to build an OLAP solution for Data Warehousing I found this text to be perfect for my transition to building my MOLAP data warehouse with SQL Server 2000 from Oracle data warehousing. Granted the book is not perfect but where else can you learn how Analysis Services 2000 and building an OLAP solution on MS SQL Server? The only other texts that even cover it are the MS SQL Server 2000 Resource Kit (also quite good book too with great tools on CDROM) and the MS SQL Server 2000 Reference Library (another must have for hardcore DBAs like me). You will be up and running a starter OLAP solution in no time flat.

I will say this breifly:

1. You are not going to learn more from this book than from the books on line included with sql server 2000.
2. The fact that the example of writing a cube from Excel didn't work makes me feel complete frustration. It was the reason why i bought this book.

However the book is not bad if you are new to olap technics. It is a good introduction.

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