Today marks the 20th birthday of Analysis Services: it was released (as OLAP Services) on November 16th 1998. There’s a celebratory blog post and video over on the Power BI blog here:
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/analysis-services-is-20-years-old/
I’m one of the interviewees on the video, and in it I tell the story of my involvement with Analysis Services and MDX – I’ve been working with it almost full-time for a little over 20 years, right from the first betas. I’ve enjoyed every minute of it, and I’d like to take the opportunity here to thank all the people who have helped me over the years at IMS Health, Microsoft Consulting Switzerland, in the SSAS and Power BI community, and in my career as an independent consultant and trainer. If you had told me in 1998 that I would still be making a living with this product (even still writing some MDX) I’m not sure I would have believed you.
Finally, if your Bingling skills have failed you, here’s the OLAP Jokes post that is mentioned in the birthday video:
https://blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2005/08/25/olap-jokes/
It was for many years the most popular post on my blog. I should point out that I didn’t write all those jokes: my colleagues at the time, Jon Axon and Colin Hardie, deserve some of the blame too.
Love the jokes!