MDX Time Calculation Shortcuts

There are lots of ways to calculate time comparisons in MDX, but there are some great shortcuts. The functions WTD,...

Modifying SQL in a Lookup Transform

Oftentimes you need to make a more advanced join that the default LookUp Transform will allow. The challenge is when...

MS SQL Server Migration Assistant for MySQL v1.0 CTP1

There it is the SQL Server Migration Assistant or SSMS for MySQL, it comes for both versions SQL Server 2008...

Pragmatic Works is on YouTube !

I bet you didn’t know Pragmatic Works has our own YouTube channel ? Check it out at

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Quotes in Calculation Tab

A quick clarification on something I said the other day to a group of students in one of our quick...

Selecting Top N Rows from Excel Source

Excel is a significant source of data in most enterprises. Therefore there is a large amount of Excel work being...

SSAS Query Processing and Performance Tuning

Any of us can work with some simple MDX queries and get them to do what we want, but in...

Testing Security in SSAS

Security in SSAS is a simple yet powerful application of windows integrated security. MDX adds extra power to this by...

Using MDX to work with the File System

There are sometimes some cool things you can do with a language that is not really it’s primary focus. T-SQL...

Why don’t lookup columns appear in no match output?

I often get asked when we are discussing loading dimension tables in SSIS, why the key columns from the table...