Book Review: Fast Track to MDX by Mark Whitehorn

You Don't Have Much Choice

This is one of only two books on MDX available. Since I purchased this book, which is certainly dated, the new version of MDX Solutions by George Spofford et. al. has shipped (which I haven't read yet). This one was not written for Analysis Services 2005; however, the basic syntax of MDX has remained the same. If you are completely new to MDX and need a book to walk you through the basics of MDX then this book is decent. Nothing spectacular, but decent. It's easy to read and pretty fast to go through as well. Then again, you don't have much choice! If you are going to be doing a lot of MDX then like me you probably want to buy both books. One note, my copy of this book has several pages in the back that are almost completely white. It wasn't printed properly. As far as I know a new edition of this book is not coming anytime soon.

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