{"id":140,"date":"2008-12-29T22:20:17","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T03:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssas-info.com\/VidasMatelisBlog\/?p=140"},"modified":"2008-12-29T22:20:17","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T03:20:17","slug":"new-book-microsoft-sql-server-2008-analysis-services-unleashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ssas-info.com\/VidasMatelisBlog\/140_new-book-microsoft-sql-server-2008-analysis-services-unleashed","title":{"rendered":"New Book &#8211; Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Unleashed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I pre-ordered\u00a0&#8220;Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Unleashed&#8221; (Amazon links:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0672330016?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=inabsqseanse2-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0672330016\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #227ab4;\">US<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/0672330016?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=infabosqlsera-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=0672330016\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #227ab4;\">UK<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/gp\/product\/0672330016?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=inforaboutana-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=15121&amp;creative=330641&amp;creativeASIN=0672330016\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #227ab4;\">Canada<\/span><\/a>) some time ago and today I finally received it. The authors are Irina Gorbach, Alexander Berger and Edward Melomed. This book is\u00a0the second\u00a0edition of the older book &#8220;Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services&#8221; (Amazon links: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0672327821?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=inabsqseanse2-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0672327821\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #227ab4;\">US<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/0672327821?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=infabosqlsera-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=0672327821\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #227ab4;\">UK<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/gp\/product\/0672327821?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=inforaboutana-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=15121&amp;creative=330641&amp;creativeASIN=0672327821\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #227ab4;\">Canada<\/span><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.ca\/e\/ir?t=inforaboutana-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=15&amp;a=0672327821\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>). It has the same structure as the older book &#8211; the same 9 parts, but the 41 chapters\u00a0are slightly different.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I see a lot of the same chapters, but I also\u00a0found that some chapters have\u00a0more explanations and more diagrams\/pictures. I also found the following new chapters in this new edition:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Part2: Creating Multidimensional Models &#8211; Chapter 8: Advanced Modeling. This chapter talks about Parent-Child relationships, Attribute Discretization, Indirect Dimensions, Measure Expressions and Linked Measure Groups.<\/li>\n<li>Part6: Analysis Services Architecture &#8211; Chapter 28: Thread Management. This chapter talks about Thread Pools and its architecture.<\/li>\n<li>Part9: Management &#8211; Chapter 41: Resource Monitoring. This chapter talks about using DMVs to do SSAS resource monitoring.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>First edition of this book was my favorite SSAS book and I am recommending second edition without any hesitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I pre-ordered &#8220;Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Unleashed&#8221; (Amazon links: US, UK and Canada) some time ago and today I finally received it. The authors are Irina Gorbach, Alexander Berger and Edward Melomed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[10,16],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ssas-info.com\/VidasMatelisBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ssas-info.com\/VidasMatelisBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ssas-info.com\/VidasMatelisBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ssas-info.com\/VidasMatelisBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ssas-info.com\/VidasMatelisBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ssas-info.com\/VidasMatelisBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"http:\/\/www.ssas-info.com\/VidasMatelisBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ssas-info.com\/VidasMatelisBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ssas-info.com\/VidasMatelisBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ssas-info.com\/VidasMatelisBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}