http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Articles tagged Programming, Data Warehousing posted on SQLServerCentral.comen-us360sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)New Author! This is an introductory level look at MDX geared toward intermediate or higher SQL users. The rate of OLAP usage is lower than it should be - maybe this will be what gets you started using it. Or thinking about it at least! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/introductiontomdx/1246/2004/01/02http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/introductiontomdx/1246/Jon has been off in the land of C# and web apps for a while, but a recent project has him investigating OLAP and then coming up with a custom solution that met his needs. Jon helped us get this site off the ground, good to have him back for a guest appearance! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/normalizingdates/1122/2003/09/05http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/normalizingdates/1122/Another new author! Gheorge shares some ideas about importing event logs and using OLAP to analyze the results. Not a bad idea at all. How many of use OLAP as often as we should? Read the article, see if it's something you want to try - and let Gheorge know what you think! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/importingandanalyzingeventlogs/997/2003/05/28http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/importingandanalyzingeventlogs/997/Fast Track to MDX gives readers all the necessary background information 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 a reader can solve real business problems. A CD containing examples from within the book, and a time-limited version of ProClarity, is includedhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/971/2003/05/01http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/971/This white paper describes how to use the connection pooling objects included with the Microsoft XML for Analysis Provider to develop scalable client and Web applications for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services. (11 printed pages) http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/420/2001/09/11http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/420/