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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Unleashed

✍ Scribed by Irina Gorbach, Alexander Berger, Edward Melomed

Publisher
Sams
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Leaves
889
Edition
1
Category
Library
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Through the first 3 chapters I felt like the book may have some promise. True, the brief overviews didn't really pertain to any major aspects of Analysis Services, but it was interesting to learn the background of the product.

Once I got to chapters 4, 5 and 6 I almost fell asleep. The author tries to explain multidimensional cubes with no real foresight into how this applies to Analysis Services. I found myself completely confused as to what was trying to be explained. My background is mainly in RDBMS, but I have enough experience with multidimensional databases to understand the core concepts. However, I am still trying to figure out what those chapters were about.

I agree with the other commenter who mentioned that this book is completely difficult to read and I say that it is not worth buying.

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