Chapter 15. Working with Multidimensional Data Sources
In This Chapter
• Analysis Services Concepts
• Data-Mining Concepts
• MDX and DMX
• More In-Depth OLAP Concepts
• Creating Data-Mining Reports
Analysis Services is a large subject and deserves an entire book by itself. Although the details of Analysis Services are outside the scope of this book, discussion of basic concepts will help you to get the most out of this chapter.
Analysis Services Concepts
It is no surprise that during the course of business every company accumulates data. It is common to divide databases into two categories: transaction processing and data warehouses.
Typical transaction processing (Online Transaction Processing or OLTP) databases are used for current processing, ...
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