I just got a copy of Applied Microsoft Analysis Services from Amozon.com, by Teo Lachev before New Year. To be honest, I didn’t really want this book when I was asked to book some books about MSAS 2005.

    At first glance, the book has more than 650 pages, I can not imagine before. After I reviewed the preface, it made me more disappointed because it gave me an impression that it seems to target on refresher of MSAS 2005. I have been migrating our BI product from MSAS 2000 to MSAS 2005 for four month, so I thought it maybe not useful for me to solve some issues I now met in the migration project. Thanks to our Great Chinese New Year, I picked up the book and started to read occasionally in one day in the festival. I am impressed by both the words of the author and details and depth of MSAS 2005. UDM, as a completely dimension model runs through the whole book. It also covers the fundamental concepts of MSAS 2005. Although I am still stuck on the issues in my project, I am getting more clear view of the new Analysis Service.

    I strongly recommend people who do or plan to do tasks about MSAS 2005 to read the book. It is indeed an impressive work. OK for now, I will try to speak out my reviews in my next series.