A number of members of the AS team have written (in some cases are still writing) books on SQL Server 2005. Check out: MDX Solutions : with Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 and Hyperion Essbase by Siva ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product...

We released SP1 on the 18th of this month (April). For Analysis Services this was an important milestone in that we had identified a number of important fixes based upon feedback from the community that we wanted to make, and SP1 was the vehicle for releasing...