Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

Foreword

It was a pleasure to be asked to write the foreword to this new book, which is remarkable for two reasons:

• People who have spent five years developing a product are normally more than ready to move on to

the next release once the product is finally ready for release. Indeed, long before a new version gets

into customers’ hands, the developers are normally already working on the next release. So, for the

actual developers to spend the considerable time that this book must have taken to write a lengthy,

detailed book on it is very rare.

• In my years as an industry analyst with The OLAP Report, and much earlier as a product manager, I

have rarely come across developers who are prepared to provide such chapter and verse information

on exactly ...