Custom Rounding and Truncation of Numbers in MDX
MDX applies "bankers' rounding" algorithm in its ROUND() function. This article shows you how to avoid that and round like in T-SQL and Excel.
2009-10-06
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Boyan Penev
Reporting Services Styles in a Database Table
A follow-up on Adam Aspin's series about SSRS styles. I have emailed Adam the article because he suggested it would be good to have one here after his works get published.
2009-03-26
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Filtering Unneeded Dimension Members in PerformancePoint Filters
Removing redundant dimension members from a Tree filter in PerformancePoint 2007 by using a simple MDX query.
2008-11-14
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