SQL Server Analysis Services 2005/2008 articles,blogs,scripts,FAQs,tools,books

SSAS-Info.com website update information for October 2007.
This newsletter can be accessed online at:
http://www.ssas-info.com/newsletters/website_update/ssas-info.com_october_2007.html

Analysis Services News

• New MS Paper: Precision Considerations for Analysis Services Users
• Cumulative update package 4 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2

Analysis Services Articles

• The MDX slicer will not change anything on an axis
• Analysis Services Projects - Deploying from within an MSI
• Analysis Services Double Hop Authentication
• MDX - History and Evolution
• Why does AS query my ROLAP dimension? Or, another good reason to use Unique Names
• Hands on with MDX
• Accessing Microsoft Analysis services using ASP
• Setting data slices on MOLAP partitions
• Different types of hierarchies in SSAS2005
• SSAS small/big query interaction
• Using ByAttribute or ByTable Processing Group Property with Analysis Services 2005
• Drillthrough to Relational in SSAS 2005
• SQL Server Data Mining Plug-In Algorithms 3
• Asymmetric Sets on Columns in Reporting Services
• Maximizing Attribute Relationship Aggregations in Changing Dimensions
• SQL Server Data Mining Plug-In Algorithms 2
• SQL Server Data Mining Plug-In Algorithms
• String Functions: The .Properties Function, Part II
• MS Paper: Precision Considerations for Analysis Services Users
• Building pivot tables using cube formulas
• How to create a time dimension in SQL Server 2005
• DefaultMember, subcubes and non-aggregatable attributes

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