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Introduction to SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services. Analysis Services Copyright © 2005 Accelebrate, Inc Introduction to SQL Server 2005 http://www.accelebrate.com 15-2 So far in this course you’ve focused on getting data into a SQL Server database and then later getting the same data out of the database. You’ve seen how to create tables, insert data, and use SQL statements, views, and stored procedures to retrieve the data. This pattern of activity, where individual actions deal with small pieces of the database, is sometimes called online transaction processing, or OLTP. But there’s another use for databases, especially large databases. Suppose you run an online book store and have sales records for 50 million book sales. Maybe books on introductory biology show a strong spike in sales every September. That’s a fact that you could use to your advantage in ordering stock, if only you knew about it. Searching for patterns like this and summarizing them is called online analytical processing, or OLAP. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 includes a separate program called Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services to perform OLAP analysis. In this chapter you’ll learn the basics of setting up and using Analysis Services.