Professional SQL Server™ Analysis Services 2005 with MDX

Acknowledgments

Wow!!! It has been an amazing two-year journey, almost to the day, from when we decided to partner in writing this book. It all 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 of 2003. As always, there are so many people who deserve mentioning that we're afraid we'll miss someone. If you are among those missed, please accept our humblest apologies. We first need to thank Amir Netz, our then Product Unit Manager, who not only granted us the permission to moonlight while working at Microsoft, but also provided constant encouragement and support. It is apropos that it is called moonlighting because we saw a lot of moonlight while working on this book - multiple all nighters took place. We thank Zhaohui Tang, who helped us get in touch with the right publishing people. Our sincerest thanks go to Wiley Publishing for giving us this opportunity and placing their trust in first-time authors like us. They provided immense help, constant feedback, and expert support. We would especially like to thank our editors, Bob Elliot and Adaobi Obi Tulton, who didn't so much as support us as prod us along – which is exactly what we needed at the time.

We would like to thank our technical reviewers, Leah Etienne and Dylan Huang, who graciously offered us their assistance. Dylan also contributed to the technical content in chapters 9, 11 ...