Written by the lead developers of Analysis Services at Microsoft, this book begins with an overview showing how Analysis Services and MDX can be used to build data warehouses and multidimensional databasesThe authors then describe the development processes for building dimensions and cubes from various data sourcesDemonstrating a variety of techniques in real-world scenarios, the book shows how MDX can be used to query databases to provide sophisticated analysis of business problemsFinally, the book explains how Analysis Services can be used with other components of SQL Ser