Microsoft OLAP Unleashed

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Summary: Defect ridden code examples, Incomplete explanations
Review: Admittedly not the most strightforward subject matter, but this book has too many serious problems. Errors in the code examples, code fragments that don't represent one complete task, etc. OK if you want a high level overview, but a code reference- NO WAY.

Rating:
Summary: Defect ridden code examples, Incomplete explanations
Review: Admittedly not the most strightforward subject matter, but this book has too many serious problems. Errors in the code examples, code fragments that don't represent one complete task, etc. OK if you want a high level overview, but a code reference- NO WAY.

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Summary: Overall good, but not enough
Review: Covering the whole Data Warehousing process: Data Transformation, Creating Cubes, and the Olap front-end tools, this book explains all this subjects in a straight and clear way. The authors have a practical approach. The controversial issues are mentioned and soon pointed to other reference books, but they allways show their favourite solutions and the reasons driving them. It's a real and useful handbook for building Data Warehouse using Microsoft tools.

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Summary: Overall good, but not enough
Review: I read this book and the Wrox book on MS OLAP. The two books seem to complement each other with some overlaps of course. While this book has many good exmaples on DTS, MDX, and client access to OLAP data, the Wrox book is more organized and has better discussions of OLAP cubes and other aspects of DW as well as a better coverage of MDX. Maybe it is crazy, but it would have been a good idea if the authors of both books combined their efforts and produced one book (wishful thinking).

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Summary: Not worth it
Review: I was pretty disappointed with the material in this book. It was basically a re-hash of the microsoft documentation and it doesn't go into any depth.

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Summary: Finally
Review: We've been waiting a long time for a truly good book on DTS and OLAP. It is finally here. My only wish is that there were two books instead of one. One book should have been called Microsoft DTS Unleashed and the other should be called Microsoft OLAP Unleashed with more OLAP discussion/examples content.