MDX # 39 – Find Default Measure using MDX Query
In Chapter 1 of our book, MDX with SSAS 2012, we’ve devoted a section “Setting a default member of a...
2014-04-23 (first published: 2014-04-15)
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MDX # 40 – CROSS JOIN does not return Cartesian product of two hierarchies from the same dimension
Correction
4/25/2014
Thanks to Chris Webb’s comment (see the comment section). I am making a correction on this blog.
The title of this...
2014-04-15
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MDX+SSAS #38–CALL ASSP.DMV() to document cubes in SSAS 2005
While you are writing and testing MDX queries in Microsoft SQL Server management Studio (SSMS), how many times you find...
2014-02-12
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MDX+SSAS #37–Ignore unrelated dimension or not
In Adventure Works cube 2008 or 2012, in the Dimension Usage tab, you will see that many intercepts of measure...
2014-02-07
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SSIS #116–What is the variable value at runtime?
Using variables in SSIS packages can make your ETL process more dynamic and respond to different scenarios during runtime.
Not...
2014-01-29
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SSRS #73 – Marlon Ribunal and Mickey Stuewe’s New Book: Reporting Services 2012 Blueprints
The book’s link is here, SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services Blueprints.
This book is a step-by-step, task-driven tutorial that goes straight...
2014-01-24
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2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million...
2014-01-01
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MDX #36 – Many thanks to the reviewers
In this blog, I’d like to give special thanks to the people below who have taken time to write reviews...
2014-01-01
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MDX #35 – Properties() function with TYPED flag
Reader Query
My publisher recently forwarded me a question from a reader about the “Using the PROPERTIES() function to retrieve data...
2013-12-27
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MDX+SSRS #33 – Retrieve manager’s key and fully-qualified member name
A co-worker recently worked on a SSRS report and wanted to use a specific manager’s team for testing. The Manager...
2013-11-18 (first published: 2013-11-08)
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