Developing Essbase Applications now available for purchase

It’s here, it’s here, it’s finally here

For those of us who love books, or whose ego demands a hardbound copy to place on a bookshelf so he can read his name on the binder, you (and I) can now buy Developing Essbase Applications: Hybrid Techniques and Practices and get it, get it, get it in our hot little hands.

Yup, for real and for true, Amazon now has it.

I’ve preordered it and hope that it will be waiting on my home office desk when I get home.

As of noon-ish today, there were only 18 copies left.  Be the one who makes me happy and order 19.

All kidding aside

We – John Booth, Tim German, William Hodges, Mike Nader, Martin Neulip, Glenn Schwartzberg aka MMIC aka the-older-brother-from-other-parents-who-now-hates-me-for-leaving-him-off-this-list-sorry-Glenn-sorry, and yr. obt. svt. – wrote this as a labor of love.  There’s no real money it, just the satisfaction that we’ve spread knowledge and hopefully improved the Essbase world a little bit.  We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we did in the writing.

Be seeing you.

Developing Essbase Applications: Hybrid Techniqus and Practices is now available for preorder!

New and improved

How can something be new and improved at the same time?  If it’s new, it isn’t improved – it’s brand new.  And if it’s improved, it’s just a modification of an existing thing.  It makes my somewhat-logical brain hurt when I try to wrap logic around language.  And yet, and yet, and yet…

Not improved, but vastly new

Developing Essbase Applications Hybrid Techniques and Practices  (there is no way I am ever going to remember the full name and besides I am a lazy typist so henceforth it shall be named DEA Hybrid) is not improved; it is brand spanking new.  Disregard the US Amazon description of it as a second edition – all of the content is new.  

This book is new, new, new (is the message getting through?) and contains these chapters written by this august gaggle of geeks:

• Essbase on Exalytics and the “Secret Sauce” – John Booth
• Hybrid Essbase:  Evolution or Revolution – Tim German and Yr. Obt. Svt.
• The Young Person’s Guide to Essbase Cube Design – Martin Neulip
• Essbase Performance and Load Testing – Tim German
• Utilizing Structured Query Language to Enhance Your Essbase Experience – Glenn Schwartzberg
• Copernicus was Right:  Integrating Oracle Business Intelligence and Essbase  -- Mike Nader
• Managing Spreadsheets (and Essbase) Through Dodeca – Cameron Lackpour
• Smart View Your Way – William Hodges

Did I mention this is all new content?  It is.

DEA Hybrid clocks in at 502 pages – 57 pages more than Developing Essbase Applications:  Advanced Techniques for Finance and IT Professionals.  I’m not sure you should judge a book by page count but it is indicative of an awful lot of effort, all of it good.

Preorder today

In the States?  You can buy it at Amazon or Barnes and Noble.

I am an internationally-minded geek (I have actually lived on three continents) and it’s currently available at Amazon Canada, UK, France, and Germany.  It is, oddly, not available on Amazon’s Australian, Italian, or Spanish sites.  

When oh when oh when will you actually be able to hold it in your hands?

It should be available in the September to October timeframe.  There’s nothing on the US Amazon site but the European sites show the middle of October 2015.  Order today and get your copy as soon as possible.

What about Kindle?

A Kindle edition will be published.  Last time round, it lagged the print copy by a month or so.

An awful lot of Essbase awesomeness

Despite Yr. Obt. Svt.’s contributions, DEA Hybrid is written by some of the most talented thought leaders in our industry.  There’s no other way to access a collection of such diverse, advanced, and thoughtful content.

There’s nothing like this series of books out there and once you read DEA Hybrid I think you’ll agree.

Be seeing you.

A really, really, really interesting guest blog on parallelism and its impact on database design

This is your captain speaking

I am very happy to inform you that I have once again suckered convinced another very clever and insightful Essbase hacker to write for me.  Peter Nitschke of M-Power Solutions  has written an absolutely fascinating analysis on BSO database design and its impact on parallelism.  I haven’t seen anything quite like this and the results are, to put it mildly, intriguing.  Without exaggeration, I think this is going to make people think, a lot, about how they design their databases.  

You will note British/Australian/Commonwealth spelling below.  Peter’s from Godzown and it is his post, and the States are the only country not to follow the Queen’s English, so I’m leaving it as is.  Thankfully, there’s nothing metric in here as I would have to convert that to real money.

And now Ladies and Gentlemen, heeeeerrrreeee’ssss Peter.

Ahoy hoi,

This will be a reasonably long and technical one - so it comes with a recommendation to read this in the morning with a strong coffee, or alternatively in the evening with a good red wine. Actually, if you're doing the latter you may have a problem