I had a post last month, MDX #25 – Slicer or Sub-Cube?, verifying that the query context did not change with the subquery.

This can pose problems if you want to use the Time-series functions in MDX. Two functions come into mind, YTD() and PeriodsToDate().

Both functions need to… Read more

Many function names in MDX are very family-friendly. Children, parent, ancestors, descendants, ascendants, are all terms we often use in telling family stories. Except ascendants. I never really understand what this word means until I ran into this word in MDX.

Ancestors VS. Ascendants

I checked the www.thefreedictionary.com, and… Read more