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HTH. Richard Turner E: [email protected] | T: @bitcrazed <http://twitter.com/#!/bitcrazed> | W: http://www.bitcrazed.com <http://www.bitcrazed.com/> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adron Hall Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 13:16 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Any OLAP / SSAS (or Mondrian) experts? If you're diving into the Business Intelligence world check out Ralph Kimball http://www.kimballgroup.com/ As for books, some of the best material around the ideals and getting things to work out well: http://www.kimballgroup.com/html/booksDWET.html http://www.kimballgroup.com/html/booksDWT2.html http://www.kimballgroup.com/html/booksDWLT2.html If you want to dive into Microsoft's SQL Server Integration Services or SQL Server Analysis Services I personally would just say to read the books above to get the concepts, then use the "Books Online" that come with SQL Server and build out some samples, but wouldn't buy any books specifically for those two functionality. Do NOT buy any of the Microsoft Press books, at least IMHO. Anything in them is easily found on MSDN, etc. :) Adron On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:30 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: I'd love to tag along on this as well. We have a big cube at work and we have some upcoming architectural stories to take on and I've never used this before so I'd love to learn from this too! Later, Kell On 2011-12-16, at 1:41 PM, Kent Skinner <[email protected]> wrote: > Would anyone be so kind as to help me with a few questions about > measure-groups, many-to-many relationships, distinct counts, MDX etc.? > > Also, any recommended books on these topics for someone new to OLAP? > > Many thanks, > Kent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] <mailto:altnetseattle%[email protected]> . > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] <mailto:altnetseattle%[email protected]> . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en. -- Adron B Hall Tech: <http://compositecode.com> http://compositecode.com Transit: <http://transitsleuth.com> http://transitsleuth.com Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/adron> http://www.twitter.com/adron -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en.
