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Title: OLAP Solutions: Building Multidimensional Information Systems by Erik Thomsen ISBN: 0-471-40030-0 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 15 April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.53 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A must read for anybody involved in Olap design
Comment: A book which gives you a comprehensive theoretical foundation together with useful, pratical techniques to design Olap solutions.
In the first half of the book the author explains you all you need to think clearly in N dimensions, in the second half he guides you through the design of a rather complex application, stepping into the purchasing process, the material inventory analysis, sales & marketing, and activity-based management. He teaches you using maieutics, Socrates' way of teaching, via a dialogue between two designers. This way, a lot of questions that usually arise during real-life development are examined and solved.
Whilst the examples in the first edition of this book were based on TM1, in this second edition they are written using a vendor-independent language, called LC (Located contents), which provides you with a solid, logically based foundation to multidimensional design.
The vendor languages, like those used by Microsoft Analysis Services (MDX), Applix TM1, Oracle Express and Hyperion Essbase, are kind of Plato's shadows in the cavern of this ideal language (which is sort of a tautology for MS Plato...), so if you start thinking in LC, you'll be able to work with all of these products.
Ideal complements to this book, if you use Microsoft Analysis Server, are "MDX Solutions" by George Spofford, and "Microsoft Olap Solutions", by Thomsen (again!), Spofford and Chase.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good introduction to OLAP
Comment: This book clearly explains the major concepts behind sucessful OLAP designs. I wish I had read it when I first started designing OLAP databases. This book does not limit itself to a single tool, but instead address the generic requirements of OLAP.
Rating: 4
Summary: Fundamental Olap principles
Comment: I was impressed by the quality of this book; this is probably the most complete book on OLAP theory and is a fundamental reading for professionals involved in the design of olap systems. In most cases it gives all the details and information needed to master this technology. It also contains some practical examples that are very useful to see how the theory can be applied in the real world.
I didn't read the first edition, but the second edition contains new sections and many updates, like a description of SQL-99 OLAP extensions.
The author chose to be vendor-independent, so all practical examples are based on a multidimensional language that he created, called Located Contents (LC). However, when I read it I had already used a couple of OLAP tools (Microsoft Analysis Services and Microstrategy), and I think that this helped me understand many of the concepts contained in the book.
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Title: MDX Solutions: With Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services by George Spofford ISBN: 0471400467 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 20 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling (Second Edition) by Ralph Kimball, Margy Ross ISBN: 0471200247 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 12 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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Title: Fast Track to MDX by Mark Whitehorn, Mosha Pasumansky, Robert Zare ISBN: 1852336811 Publisher: Springer Verlag Pub. Date: 15 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Microsoft(r) SQL Server(tm) 2000 Analysis Services Step by Step by OLAP Train, Reed Jacobson ISBN: 0735609047 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 06 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Mastering Data Warehouse Design : Relational and Dimensional Techniques by Claudia Imhoff, Nicholas Galemmo, Jonathan G. Geiger ISBN: 0471324213 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 25 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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