New Book released - "Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Unleashed"

Dec 24, 2008 - SAMS released new book "Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Unleashed".
Authors: Irina Gorbach, Alexander Berger, Edward Melomed

Amazon links: US, UK and Canada

This book is the second edition of the older book “Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services” (Amazon links: US, UK and Canada). It has the same structure as the older book - the same 9 parts, but the 41 chapters are slightly different. I see a lot of the same chapters, but I also found that some chapters have more explanations and more diagrams/pictures. I also found the following new chapters in this new edition:

• Part2: Creating Multidimensional Models - Chapter 8: Advanced Modeling. This chapter talks about Parent-Child relationships, Attribute Discretization, Indirect Dimensions, Measure Expressions and Linked Measure Groups.
• Part6: Analysis Services Architecture - Chapter 28: Thread Management. This chapter talks about Thread Pools and its architecture.
• Part9: Management - Chapter 41: Resource Monitoring. This chapter talks about using DMVs to do SSAS resource monitoring. 

You can also read review by Thomas Ivarsson here.