Fast Track to MDX (for SQL Server 2000) Second Edition Mark Whitehorn, Robert Zare and Mosha Pasumansky OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) is the most powerful tools currently available Business Intelligence and Microsoft Analysis Manager makes OLAP cubes are very easy to build and deploy. Fast Track to MDX gives all the necessary background to let you write useful, powerful expressions and MDX MDX introduces the most frequently used functions and construction. No prior knowledge is assumed and examples are used throughout this book to rapidly develop your MDX skills to the point where you can solve real business problems. Robert Zare is a Program Manager for Analysis Services at Microsoft: talks inspiration on MDX sowed the seeds from which this book grew. Mosha Pasumansky is one of the authors OLEDB for OLAP specification that defined MDX language and later he was the developer responsible for the adoption of the MDX in Microsoft OLAP Services 7.0 product. It introduced the topic of recursion in MDX, walk the reader through the process of creating recursive expressions and finally demonstrate how recursion can be used to effectively solve a series of business problems.