Author(s): Mark Whitehorn, Robert Zare, Mosha Pasumansky
Categories: Reference > General, Computers > Database Management, Computers > Programming, Computers > Software, Mathematics > General
Publisher: Springer
Publish date: 2004-09-23
ISBN-10: 1852336811
ISBN-13: 9781852336813
Language: English
Description: OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) is the most powerful business
intelligence tool currently available and Microsoft's Analysis
Manager makes OLAP cubes incredibly easy to build and deploy.
However, the real power of OLAP lies in its ability to help you
solve real-life business problems; to release that power you need
to use the language that controls the cubes and allows them to be
queried. That language is MDX (Multi Dimensional eXpressions). Fast
Track to MDX gives you all the necessary background to let you
write useful, powerful MDX expressions and introduces the most
frequently used MDX functions and constructs. No prior knowledge is… more…
intelligence tool currently available and Microsoft's Analysis
Manager makes OLAP cubes incredibly easy to build and deploy.
However, the real power of OLAP lies in its ability to help you
solve real-life business problems; to release that power you need
to use the language that controls the cubes and allows them to be
queried. That language is MDX (Multi Dimensional eXpressions). Fast
Track to MDX gives you all the necessary background to let you
write useful, powerful MDX expressions and introduces the most
frequently used MDX functions and constructs. No prior knowledge is… more…
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