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Very well-written book that balances well both being concise and ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 14, 2017

Very well-written book that balances well both being concise and in-depth. Coming from someone internet- and experience-taught, I must admit that with this book came the first instance where knowledge from a book solved a problem where a google search failed me. (Page 52 vs "Errors in the OLAP storage engine: The attribute key cannot be found when processing" on a single-table Dimension.)

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 11, 2019

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 4, 2014

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This book is especially useful for beginning SSAS developers. I was looking for more detailed information on the "date tool". It did get me started and ready to understand and download the solution from the web and get it working.

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Brian Alan Carlson

I've been impressing my coworkers with my knowledge of cube ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 24, 2016

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I've been impressing my coworkers with my knowledge of cube development from reading this book. It's not a beginner book, but it's clear enough that you don't need a lot of experience either.

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René Berends

Most useful reference on MDX available

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 17, 2014

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Most useful reference on MDX available. Most samples are applicable to your SSAS projects directly. Clear explanation on theory behind and when and why to use a specific MDX pattern.

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Venkata ramana

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 25, 2014

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Must Read for a BI Developer

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Mary Turner

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 3, 2015

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Gilbert Quevauvilliers

Practical implementations for SSAS

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 26, 2014

This book is a must read if you are looking for some useful and practical information in your SSAS Multidimensional models. But it must be noted that this is not an introduction into SSAS Multidimensional modelling, rather practical real world examples.
I found that the book is a wealth of information that can be applied to your working environment. There are a lot of real world examples that I have had a look at and made me check and update my SSAS Multidimensional models so that they can be that much faster and quicker.
It is also a great reference book, for when you are looking for a specific issue, where you can find the requirement and how to solve your particular issue.
I also really enjoyed the book, because it got straight into the requirement and then explained how to potentially solve or improve your requirement. Along with this I found that it was great where they applied their working experience in what they encountered and how they overcome an issue.
It is written by the guys who I consider to be some of the leaders in SSAS Multidimensional modelling. And you can see by the context of the detail in the book, as well as their examples that this happens often in the working environment, and how to get the best performance from your SSAS Multidimensional models.
A great read and I would recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a wealth of information as well as some great insight into the inner workings of SSAS Multidimensional models.

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Rick Oller

The best guide to SSAS 2012 Multidimensional Models

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 30, 2014

Expert Cube Development with SSAS Multidimensional Models is a thorough, in-depth tour of SSAS 2012 from the Multidimensional models perspective. The authors state up front that this is not a book about SSAS Tabular models and this is an important distinction to keep in mind, as it affects the entire approach to SQL Server BI, from the installation of SSAS forward.
We are taken through a basic cube setup, mercifully not using the Northwinds sample database. I like how the authors repeatedly caution that a number of key elements need to be gotten right in the data mart before cube setup begins. While these elements can also be dealt with in the cube definition, it doesn’t mean they should be, and that distinction is borne out by experience, which the authors clearly have, in spades.
We are presented with a number of useful components of SSAS Multidimensional Models including Measure Groups, Drillthroughs, Calculations (with a smattering of MDX code, about as much as I could handle) and some useful chapters on security and performance tuning.
I was relieved that this was not a 1,000+ page book designed to monopolize shelf space in the tradition of old school technical book publishing. For me, it struck a good balance between level of detail and keeping things moving, so I was able to productively work through it in a reasonable amount of time. For a fairly dry topic the authors managed to keep it interesting, although it helps as a reader if you have some cube exposure (as I did) prior to attempting this book.

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Dimitri Shvorob

Solid

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 19, 2014

What can I say - another excellent book from the author team I came to associate with high quality after reading their books on SSAS Tabular and PowerPivot. (And one finds even more SSAS wisdom by following the links in the book). However, I would moderate enthusiasm of some of the other reviews, which seem to recommend the book to everybody, and confirm that this is indeed an intermediate-to-advanced book. At the risk of sounding like a Packt hired gun :), I would recommend SSAS Multidimensional beginners to start with "Getting Started with SQL Server 2012 Cube Development" by Lidberg, and point to "SQL Server Analysis Services 2012 Cube Development Cookbook" by Dewald et al. as the best entry in the intermediate category. (But don't learn MDX from those books - "Microsoft SQL Server 2008 MDX Step by Step" by Clay and Smith is so much better). Unfortunately, the genre of SSAS Multidimensional books is not as developed as I would like - isn't it odd, for example, that this (intermediate-to-advanced, as I said earlier) book seems to be the only one mentioning something as bread-and-butter as slowly-changing dimensions? - and "Expert cube development" is a necessary, high-impact entry into the market.

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