What is new in OLAP engine in Katmai CTP
After writing my previous blog post about dynamic named sets, I received feedback from multiple people saying the same thing: "How come nobody knew about this great new feature for the last 3 months". Now, one of the constant complains about AS2005 was inadequate documentation. Almost two years after AS2005 release, the documentation improved greatly with several BOL Web releases. In the upcoming AS2008 release, all the new features are properly documented in CTP BOL. However, the problem seems to be with the "What's new" documents. They are written at pretty high level and don't list every single small feature. And since there is no easy way to get a diff between BOLs for different releases. Additionally, after July CTP was released, the "What's new in June CTP" document disappeared, or at least I wasn't able to locate it, there is only "What's new in July CTP" document. Therefore there is simply no way for somebody to get list of all changes from AS2005 to Katmai. Therefore, I compiled the list of changes specifically in the OLAP engine only, i.e. I omit both Data Mining and Tools (UI/AMO). Of course, my list is likely to be incomplete, but until there is a real one - better something than nothing.