OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) is the most powerful business
intelligence tool currently available and Microsoft's Analysis Manager
makes OLAP cubes incredibly easy to build and deploy. However, the real
power of OLAP lies in its ability to help solve real-life business
problems; to release that power users need to use the language that
controls the cubes and allows them to be queried. That language is MDX
(Multi Dimensional eXpressions). Fast Track to MDX provides all the
necessary background needed to write useful, powerful MDX expressions
and introduces the most frequently used MDX functions and constructs. No
prior knowledge is assumed and examples are used throughout the book to
rapidly develop MDX skills to the point where they can solve real
business problems.