Other Microsoft OLAP Resources

Community microsoft.public.sqlserver.olap newsgroup (this is most active forum with MVPs, PSS and members of AS product team including myself hanging out there) http://groups.google.com/groups?q=microsoft.public.sqlserver.olap&hl=en OLAP forum in SQL.RU (if you know Russian - there are some very knowledgeable people in this forum, including few members of AS development team, like myself) http://www.sql.ru/forum/actualtopics.aspx?bid=26 OLAP forum at SQLPass http://www.sqlpass.org/forums/categories.cfm?catid=392 Microsoft Analysis Services Users Community on MSN (mostly inactive these days) http://communities.msn.com/MicrosoftOLAPServicesUsersCommunity Sites Official Microsoft Analysis Services Web site http://www.microsoft.com/sql/evaluation/bi/bianalysis.asp Mastering OLAP at SQL Magazine - A lot of articles dedicated to Analysis Services and OLAP http://www.sqlmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?DepartmentID=860 DSSLab -  Microsoft OLAP / BI Solutions Practice - mostly by George Spofford - the recognized authority in MS OLAP http://www.dsslab.com/microsoft_olapbi.html OLAP Report by Nigel Pendse - OLAP Report is definetely the most comprehensive source of information about OLAP http://www.olapreport.com/Comment_Microsoft.htm OLAP.RU - Microsoft OLAP In Russian http://www.olap.ru/microsoft/home.htm Analysis Services articles at SQLCentral http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/articleList.asp?categoryid=69 SQLTeam links http://www.sqlteam.com/FilterTopics.asp?TopicID=106 Other people's collections http://www.tomchester.net - Professional site of Tom Chester http://www.johnkeeley.com/  - John Keeley collection http://www.activeinterface.com/thinolap.html - Chris Harrington's blog http://www.geocities.com/brianaltmann/olap.html - Brian Altmann's OLAP page http://sqljunkies.com/WebLog/hitachiconsulting/ - Reed Jacobsen's blog http://www.sql-server-performance.com/bill_pearson.asp - Bill Pearson's articles Blogs Mosha Pasumansky (mine) blog about Microsoft OLAP, MDX and Analysis Services 2005 http://sqljunkies.com/WebLog/mosha Reed Jacobsen blog about Analysis Services 2005 BI http://sqljunkies.com/WebLog/hitachiconsulting/ Marco Russo blog about Analysis Services 2005 BI http://sqljunkies.com/WebLog/sqlbi Best Practices for Analysis Services blog by Dave Wickert http://blogs.msdn.com/bi_systems Duncan Lamb blog about OLAP and BI http://duncanlamb.blogspot.com/ Olivier Pieri blog about ADOMD.NET and programmability in Analysis Services 2005 http://blogs.msdn.com/olivier_pieri/ Chris Harrington blog about XMLA http://www.activeinterface.com/thinolap.html Books http://www.mosha.com/msolap/books.htm FAQ http://www.mosha.com/msolap/faq.htm

Last updated: 12/28/05.