I got to read the newly published book called "Expert Cube Development with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services " by Marco Russo, Alberto Ferrari, Chris Webb".
This is a very good book. this book does not talk about SSAS 2008 concepts but practical experience & expertise of Marco Russo, Alberto Ferrari, Chris Webb.
Most interestingly, they discussed about Calculation dimension to provide flexibility to define the MDX expressions and use rest of the all the dimensions on rows/columns or pages. This is something that I have been using for a long time in my Reporting cube and I am exicited to see about the same in their book.
Another intesting topic is that with SSAS 2005 , it is quite confusing whether to use "CustomRollupColumn" or "MDX Scripts" for custom members. They have niced touched based about the same.
Planing to read further and planning to update the blog with some more intesting things that I find.
This is a very good book. this book does not talk about SSAS 2008 concepts but practical experience & expertise of Marco Russo, Alberto Ferrari, Chris Webb.
Most interestingly, they discussed about Calculation dimension to provide flexibility to define the MDX expressions and use rest of the all the dimensions on rows/columns or pages. This is something that I have been using for a long time in my Reporting cube and I am exicited to see about the same in their book.
Another intesting topic is that with SSAS 2005 , it is quite confusing whether to use "CustomRollupColumn" or "MDX Scripts" for custom members. They have niced touched based about the same.
Planing to read further and planning to update the blog with some more intesting things that I find.
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