October 28, 2002 at 5:19 pm
I am looking for the definitive book on OLAP. It would be nice if it was MS-SQL aware but I'll take a book that was vendor neutral, also.
I already know the OLTP side so I'm looking for a book that will walk me through all the steps in an OLAP design and implementation.
Does anyone have a suggestion?
TIA
Steve Hendricks
MCSD, MCDBA
AFS Consulting Group
(949) 588-9800 x15
Steve Hendricks
MCSD, MCDBA
Data Matrix
shendricks@afsconsulting.com
(949) 588-9800 x15
October 28, 2002 at 6:07 pm
No idea. OLAP is a different world! We're weak in that area, if you learn the answers please drop by to answer some questions:-) Be interested to hear which book you end up with and how good it turned out to be.
Andy
October 28, 2002 at 11:10 pm
The best book I have found so far is Microsoft(r) SQL Server(tm) 2000 Analysis Services Step by Step
-- Olap Train (Editor), Reed Jacobson. Unfortunately, there just doesn't seem to be a plethora of OLAP books...
hth,
Michael
Michael Weiss
Michael Weiss
November 7, 2002 at 3:53 am
Try Unlocking OLAP with Microsoft SQL Server and Excel 2000 (ISBN 0764545876) or SQL Server 7 Data Warehousing (ISBN 0072119217). These are both SQL7 versions of the books, but do go through design issues.
Another book of interest is SQL Server Developers Guide to OLAP with Analysis Services (ISBN 0782129579). This is a SQL2000 version, but doesn't go into much depth on OLAP design issues, but does include a useful introduction to MDX, if you were thinking of custom MDX queries, and how to programmatically access the cubes.
November 7, 2002 at 5:00 am
Microsoft(r) SQL Server(tm) 2000 Analysis Services Step by Step
Seems to be a deceient book for the beginer which one of my fellow cohorts picked up and is using. I am not much a book person myself and hands on is far more usefull, I just the need the basics. Overall a simple step by step book is best to begin with then if you are hands on it is about playing. If you learn more by reading then I suggest checking all the book sites (amazon, barnes and noble, books-a-million, etc) and read the book personal reviews on all sites possible before you purchase anything. Better still, goto Media Play, Waldenbooks, Books-A-Million, Barnes and Nobel, etc and dig thru the old marked down books, this way if it stinks you are not out as bad a chunk of change.
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