A book/CD-ROM showing how to take advantage of features of SQL Server 7.0 to design, build, and manage a data warehouse. Introduces basic concepts of data warehousing, then looks at online analytical... This description may be from another edition of this product.
This is an excellent book. It has three detailed chapters on MDX, good descriptions on how to build data warehouses with SQL 7, a discussion on DTS, and includes an introductory chapter on OLAP for those not familiar with it. Great chapter on optimizing a SQL DW, too. My only negative comment is that I found chapter 9 wasn't that useful, and read it after I read the other chapters. I also skipped the code sample in the appendix. Everything else in the book is good. I highly recommend the book.
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