Excerpt from Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Unleashed by Irina Gorbach, Alexander Berger, Edward Melomed Chapter 1: Introduction to OLAP and Its Role in Business Intelligence Excerpt from ...

Microsoft Corp. and data analysis software vendor Hyperion Solutions Corp. yesterday announced plans for a joint XML-based technical specification aimed at providing a common way for users to connect ...

Recent advances in OLAP query recommendations and user interaction are transforming the way data is explored and analysed. Traditional OLAP systems, long reliant on standard roll-up and drill-down ...

Data Partitioning is a very useful feature in SQL Server 2005 and beyond. I have discussed this database feature in previous blog entries but it is also available in SQL Server Analysis Services which ...