[...]... Melomed is one of the original members of the Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services team He arrived in Redmond as part of Microsoft s acquisition of Panorama Software Systems, Inc., which led to the technology that gave rise to Analysis Services 2008 He works as a program manager at Microsoft and plays a major role in the infrastructure design for the Analysis Services engine Acknowledgments We are incredibly... of Analysis Services consists of standard data access interfaces Client applications use those interfaces: XML for Analysis and MDX to communicate with Analysis Services More than hundred applications available today support the application model of Analysis Services and can work with any Analysis Services cubes The Multidimensional Data Model 11 Unified Dimensional Model The UDM of Microsoft SQL Server. .. multidimensional model Ap pli Mo catio de n l Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Co nc SQL Server Business Intelligence M eptua ode l Development Studio l Analysis Services n tio lica pp odel A M cation Appli el Mod Reporting Services Ap al ptu nce l Co o d e M p l ic Mo ation de l Ap t t n atiiio pllliiic del Mo M M SQL Server Management Studio Microsoft Office Performance Point 2007 SQL Server Management Studio Relational... need to fully exploit Analysis Services and explain the architecture of the system You’ll find all of the coverage of our previous book (just in case you were wondering if you needed to go back and read that one first), including the basic architecture established in Analysis Services 2005, as well as all the improvements introduced in Analysis Services 2008 Analysis Services Unleashed gives you a... OLAP server in the 1997 release of SQL Server 6.5 However, instead of rushing to market, Microsoft decided to give the development team more time to implement MDX and a new OLEDB for OLAP provider Microsoft s first version of a multidimensional database was released in 1998 as part of SQL Server 7.0 That version was integrated with Microsoft Excel PivotTables, the first client for the new server 2 Microsoft. .. to meet the requirements of enterprise customers For the 2005 release of SQL Server Analysis Services, we started from ground up, rewriting the original (and now aging) code base We built enterprise infrastructure into the core of the server SQL Server 2008 release continues to improve architecture and functionality of Analysis Services While improving the performance of query execution, it also introduces... Introduction to Analysis Services IN THIS PART CHAPTER 1 Introduction to OLAP and Its Role in Business Intelligence CHAPTER 2 Multidimensional Data Model CHAPTER 3 Client /Server Architecture and Multidimensional Databases: An Overview This page intentionally left blank CHAPTER 1 Introduction to OLAP and Its Role in Business Intelligence In the past decade, Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services established... Accessing Data in Analysis Services 31 Client /Server Architecture and Data Access 569 Using TCP/IP for Data Access .569 Using Binary XML and Compression for Data Access 570 xiv Contents Using HTTP for Data Access .571 Offline Access to Data .573 Client Components Shipped with Analysis Services 574 Using XML for Analysis to Build Your Application 574 Using Analysis Services. .. known any other OLAP server vendor to be so open Users of Analysis Services are fortunate in the range of books available to them: more than for all the other OLAP servers combined This is clearly the book for the most technical users who really need and want to understand exactly how Analysis Services works There are many other books for those just getting started with Analysis Services, or who want... currently is working on scalability of Analysis Services Alexander Berger was one of the first developers to work on OLAP systems at Panorama, prior to their purchase by Microsoft After the acquisition, Alexander led the development of Microsoft OLAP Server through all of its major releases prior to SSAS 2008 Currently, Alexander leads the Business Intelligence department for Microsoft adCenter He is one of . alt="" Microsoft ® SQL Server ™ 2008 Analysis Services UNLEASHED 800 East 96th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46240 USA Irina Gorbach Alexander Berger Edward Melomed Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis. Data: Melomed, Edward. Microsoft SQL server 2008 analysis services unleashed / Edward Melomed, Alexander Berger, Irina Gorbach. p. cm. ISBN 978-0-672-33001-8 1. SQL server. 2. Client /server computing the Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services team. He arrived in Redmond as part of Microsoft s acquisition of Panorama Software Systems, Inc., which led to the technology that gave rise to Analysis