MDX with Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services Cookbook - Third Edition
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MDX with Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services Cookbook - Third Edition


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About the Book

Over 70 practical recipes to analyze multi-dimensional data in SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services cubes

Key Features

  • Updated for SQL Server 2016, this book helps you take advantage of the new MDX commands and the new features introduced in SSAS
  • Perform time-related, context-aware, and business related-calculations with ease to enrich your Business Intelligence solutions
  • Collection of techniques to write flexible and high performing MDX queries in SSAS with carefully structured examples

Book Description

If you're often faced with MDX challenges, this is a book for you. It will teach you how to solve various real-world business requirements using MDX queries and calculations.

Examples in the book introduce an idea or a problem and then guide you through the process of implementing the solution in a step-by-step manner, inform you about the best practices and offer a deep knowledge in terms of how the solution works. Recipes are organized by chapters, each covering a single topic. They start slowly and logically progress to more advanced techniques.

In case of complexity, things are broken down. Instead of one, there are series of recipes built one on top of another. This way you are able to see intermediate results and debug potential errors faster.

Finally, the cookbook format is here to help you quickly identify the topic of interest and in it a wide range of practical solutions, that is - MDX recipes for your success.

What you will learn

  • Grasp the fundamental MDX concepts, features, and techniques
  • Work with sets
  • Work with Time dimension and create time-aware calculations
  • Make analytical reports compact, concise, and efficient
  • Navigate cubes
  • Master MDX for reporting with Reporting Services (new)
  • Perform business analytics
  • Design efficient cubes and efficient MDX queries
  • Create metadata-driven calculations (new)
  • Capture MDX queries and many other techniques

About the Author: Tomislav Piasevoli is a Business Intelligence Specialist with years of experience with SQL Server Analysis Services. He lives in Croatia and works for SoftPro Tetral d.o.o. (http: //www.softpro.hr), a company with a long tradition in building advanced SSAS frontends and implementing BI solutions on the Microsoft platform. During his career in the company, Tomislav has successfully implemented more than 20 still-in-use BI solutions and now specializes in dimensional modeling, cube design and MDX. Tomislav has been honored with Microsoft's MVP award twice, mostly for his contribution to the SSAS community on the MSDN forum. Besides solving MDX puzzles, he presents at conferences, writes articles for magazines, and maintains his blog at http: //tomislav.piasevoli.co


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781786460998
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Packt Publishing
  • Edition: 3 Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Weight: 1042 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1786460998
  • Publisher Date: 30 Nov 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 586
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Over 70 practical recipes to analyze multi-dimensional data in SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services cubes
  • Width: 191 mm


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