Microsoft

Foreword

I am pleased to see this book being updated for a second edition, to cover the changes in Analysis Services 2008, and also to clarify some of the more difficult material in the first edition. This should make the book even more useful to its target users.

Now that Analysis Services is in its fourth major release, it has become a big, complex product, far removed from the relatively simple first release of a mere decade earlier. To make the most of it, model designers need much more knowledge than is available in the online documentation, which makes books like this all the more necessary. And, of course, now that the product is so widely used, sometimes for quite challenging applications, there is much more experience of the best ...