Dimensions
189 x 234 x 23mm
Intermediate - Advanced Level Users.
Includes CD-ROM.
This book is an introduction for experienced database professionals to the new online analytical processing (OLAP) technologies and services bundled with the latest version of Microsoft SQL Server 7. This book provides tutorials and roadmaps to core OLAP terms and techniques, with which you gain the background you need to confidently design applications that draw on the multiple disciplines of data warehousing and OLAP.
The book provides solutions to the most common OLAP programming tasks, from building a data warehouse and OLAP cube to accessing data using pivot tables and English language queries. A quick reference to decision support objects, interfaces, properties and methods, this guide is the perfect job site companion for consultant and IT staff alike. It comes with a searchable electronic version of the text on CD-ROM.