Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 688 pages
- Published by: Wiley
- Edition: 2nd Edition April 15, 2002
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0471400300
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0471400301
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Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.5 x 1.5 inches
- Weighs: 2.6 pounds
Book Description
OLAP enables users to access information from multidimensional data warehouses almost instantly, to view information in any way they like, and to cleanly specify and carry out sophisticated calculations. Although many commercial OLAP tools and products are now available, OLAP is still a difficult and complex technology to master.
- Substantially updated with expanded coverage of implementation methods for data storage, access, and calculation; also, new chapters added to combine OLAP with data warehouse, mining, and decision support tools
- Teaches the best practices for building OLAP models that improve business and organizational decision-making, completely independent of commercial tools, using revised case studies
- Companion Web site provides updates on OLAP standards and tools, code examples, and links to valuable resources
Book Info
Substantially updated with expanded coverage of implementation methods for data storage, access, and calculation; also, new chapters added to combine OLAP with data warehouse, mining, and decision support tools. Softcover.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: OLAP Solutions: Building Multidimensional Information Systems (Paperback)
If you're not doing MSOLAP, then this is pretty much (as of the date of this writing) the only practical choice for an OLAP book. It's a good book, very clear explanations of some concepts I was having trouble with (ie, difference between 'generation' and 'level' when every vendor treats these words differently). The descriptions of multi-dimensionalism and how to train your brain to think non-two-dimensionally were just what I needed. I did not install the software in the back of the book, so I can'ton that.
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