Excerpt from Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed. By Ray Rankins, Paul Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, and Alex T. Silverstein Published by Sams ISBN-10: 0-672-33056-3 ISBN-13: 978-0-672-33056-8 ...

The SQL Server Analysis Services, or SSAS, is a multidimensional analysis tool that features Online Analytical Processing, powerful data mining capabilities, and deeper dimensions to business ...

SQL Server Analysis Services, one of the key features of Microsoft’s relational database enterprise offering, is going to the cloud. The company announced Tuesday that it’s launching the ...

REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 19, 2007 — Microsoft Corp. today released Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 SP2, an update to its award-winning data management and analysis platform. Customers can now take advantage ...

The ease and ubiquity of SQL have even led the creators of many “ NoSQL ” or non-relational data stores, such as Hadoop, to adopt subsets of SQL or come up with their own SQL-like query languages.

SQL Server 2008 R2 BI Solution Stack PowerPivot for Excel An add-in for Excel, PowerPivot is built on the SQL Server Analysis Service Engine Vertipaq.