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Acknowledgments

We are incredibly grateful to many people who have gone out of their way to help with this book.

To Py Bateman, our co-author, for making this book possible.

To Mosha Pasumansky, MDX guru, for answering all our questions and providing us with your expertise. Your mosha.com served as a terrific tool in our research.

To Marius Dimitru, formula engine expert, for helping us explain the details of the formula engine architecture and exposing power of the latest improvements.

To Akshai Mirchandani, engine expert, for support and help with writeback, proactive caching, and drillthrough.

To Michael Vovchik, storage engine expert, for support and help with DMVs.

To Oleg Lvovitch, expert in Visual Studio integration—thanks for help ...