Montral FoxPro User's Group (MFUG) is having a big event in November.

Mardi le 28 novembre 2000 / Tuesday November 27th 2000
Val Matison present SQL Server with VFP

Interfacing OLAP Services with Visual FoxPro

This session introduces OLAP to the Visual FoxPro developer. We’ll begin the discussion with an overview of OLAP and the necessity for a data warehouse. The discussion will then lead to Data Transformation Services, which is Microsoft's implementation of an extract, transform, and load utility. We then review the steps necessary to build cubes; multi-dimensional data stores that facilitate querying of a data warehouse. We will also include an introduction to PivotTable services and Multi Dimensional Expressions, the query language of cubes.

Biography:

Val Matison is an internationally recognized database expert. His work experience includes many unique projects including the design of the computer systems for the Toronto SkyDome and the development of a specialized application for the Euro Tunnel. The latter application manages a staggering 128 gigabytes of data. He currently specializes in OLAP applications using SQL Server.
Val Matison was listed in the Who’s Who 2000 edition of Channel Business Magazine as a top channel innovator.

He frequently speaks at conferences in North America and Europe on database techniques such as data warehousing and mining, client server application development and large systems architectures. He frequently demonstrates database technologies to the general public on behalf of Microsoft Canada at Comdex, Developer Days, and MSDN technical summits. He is also an accomplished author and his articles have been published in various periodicals and books. Val Matison is a Microsoft Certified Professional and Microsoft Certified Trainer. He can be reached at matisonv@dbcentral.com.