Professional Microsoft® SQL Server® Analysis Services 2008 with MDX

Acknowledgments

Wow!!! It has been an amazing 15 months from when we decided to partner in writing this book. The first edition of this book started when Siva jokingly mentioned to his wife the idea of writing a book on SQL Server Analysis Services 2005. She took it seriously and motivated him to start working on the idea in October 2003. Because the first edition was well received, Siva identified co-authors for the new edition. All the co-authors of this book were part of the SQL Server team when they started writing this book. As always, there are so many people who deserve mentioning that we are afraid we will miss someone. If you are among those missed, please accept our humblest apologies. We first need to thank the managers of each co-author and Kamal Hathi, Product Unit Manager of the Analysis Services team for permission to moonlight. Siva specifically thanks his manager Lon Fisher for his constant encouragement and support to help Analysis Services customers. We thank our editors, Bob Elliott and Kelly Talbot, who supported us right from the beginning but also prodded us along, which was necessary to make sure the book was published on time.

We would like to thank our technical reviewers, Ron Pihlgren and Prashant Dhingra, who graciously offered us their assistance and significantly helped in improving the content and samples in the book. We thank Akshai Mirchandani, Wayne Robertson, Leah Etienne, and Grant Paisley for their contributions in the book for Chapters 5