Understand Microsoft's dramatically updated new release of its premier toolset for business intelligence
The first major update to Microsoft's state-of-the-art, complex toolset for business intelligence (BI) in years is now available and what better way to master it than with this detailed book from key members of the product's development team? If you're a database or data warehouse developer, this is the expert resource you need to build full-scale, multi-dimensional, database applications using Microsoft's new SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services and related tools.

The first major update to Microsoft’s state-of-the-art, complex toolset for business intelligence (BI) in years is now available and what better way to master it than with this detailed book from key members of the product’s development team? If you’re a database or data warehouse developer, this is the expert resource you need to build full-scale, multi-dimensional, database applications using Microsoft’s new SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services and related tools.

80 recipes for enriching your Business Intelligence solutions with high-performance MDX calculations and flexible MDX queries
Enrich your BI solutions by implementing best practice MDX calculations
Master a wide range of time-related, context-aware, and business-related calculations
Enhance your solutions by combining MDX with utility dimensions
Become skilled in making reports concise
Learn how to optimize, dissect, and debug your MDX calculations
Maximize your learning with detailed explanations following each solution
Packed with practical, hands-on cookbook recipes, illustrating the techniques to enrich your Business Intelligence solutions
In Detail

Professional Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2008 with MDX /by Sivakumar Harinath, Robert Zare, Sethu Meenakshisundaram and Matt Carroll. The new features of Analysis Services 2008 make it even easier to use andbuild your databases for efficient and improved performance. This authoritative book, written by key members of the Analysis Services product team at Microsoft, explains how to best use these enhancements for your business needs. The authors provides you with valuable insight on how to use Analysis Services 2008 effectively to build, process, and deploy top-of-the-line business intelligence applications.

Paulina Escobar is the housewife to a prominent lawyer in an unnamed South American country just out of a dictatorship. One day a storm forces her husband to ride home with a neighbor. That chance encounter brings up demons from her past, as she is convinced that the neighbor (Dr. Miranda) was part of the old fascist regime that tortured and raped her, while blindfolded. Paulina takes him captive to determine the truth. Paulina is torn between her psychological repressions and somber memory, Gerardo is torn between his wife and the law, and Dr. Miranda is forced to endure captivity while husband and wife seek out the uncertain truth about the clouded past.

Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.

Teach yourself the Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) query language—one step at a time. With this practical, learn-by-doing tutorial, you’ll build the core techniques for using MDX with Analysis Services to deliver high-performance business intelligence solutions.

Serving as both a tutorial and a reference guide to the MDX (Multidimensional Expressions) query language.

A mixture of fact and speculation surrounding the death of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on 22nd November, 1963. New Orleans District Attorney, Jim Garrison, re-opens the files on the investigation and takes a critical look at the facts given by the F.B.I. His persistent questioning and poking his nose where it shouldn't be causes his and his family's lives to be at risk. But he keeps on the trail and soon uncovers a lead which points to the war in Vietnam.

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity. The story, set in '50s Hollywood, focuses on Norma Desmond, a silent-screen goddess whose pathetic belief in her own indestructibility has turned her into a demented recluse.

A gang of five diverse oddball criminal types rent a two room apartment in an isolated house on a London cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow with three pet parrots. The group's mastermind, Professor Marcus, tells her a cover story that they are members of an amateur string quintet and would like to use the rooms to hone their musical skills. In reality, they are plotting to rob a bank and plan to use Mrs. Wilberforce's naiveté and her Victorian sensibilities to their advantage.

Miller's Crossing is a 1990 crime film by the Coen brothers and starring Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, Marcia Gay Harden, Jon Polito and John Turturro. The plot concerns a power struggle between two rival gangs and how the protagonist (Byrne) plays both sides off each other.