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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Sherry Li's BI Corner
MDX #32 – Vincent Rainardi’s blog
I came across Vincent Rainardi’s blog, and thought I’d share it with the readers.
Sherry Li and Tomislav’s 2012 MDX Cook...
2013-10-24
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SQL #52 – set statistics xml on
When tuning SQL queries, I find that I use the following three SET options quite often.
set showplan_xml on
When showplan_xml...
2013-10-24
1,880 reads
SQL #51 – Timeout when updating a big table
A co-worker recently asked me why she would get timeout when updating a column in a big table. This column...
2013-10-24
16,764 reads
MDX+SSRS #31– Query Designer in SSRS only allows the Measures dimension in the first axis
In Chapter 1 of the book MDX with SSAS 2012 Cookbook, in the first recipe “Putting data on x and...
2013-10-03 (first published: 2013-09-28)
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MDX #30 – Get The Book: MDX with SSAS 2012 Cookbook
MDX with SSAS 2012 Cookbook
by Sherry Li and Tomislav Piasevoli
Packt Publishing 2013
The book is now available in both paperback...
2013-09-22
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SQL #50–Deleting or updating data from a table of 20+ GB
I don’t have a definition of what is considered a large SQL table. I am pretty sure, however, that a...
2013-09-22
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MDX #29–Co-authored MDX with SSAS 2012 Cookbook
I have been absent from this blog for the last few months. For those who have noticed, I’d like to...
2013-08-29
875 reads
MDX #28– Time functions will not work with subquery
I had a post last month, MDX #25 – Slicer or Sub-Cube?, verifying that the query context did not change with...
2013-03-22
1,258 reads
MDX #27–Who are Ascendants?
Many function names in MDX are very family-friendly. Children, parent, ancestors, descendants, ascendants, are all terms we often use in...
2013-03-02
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Question of the Day
The Empty Aggregate
I have this table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CustomerOrder] ( [OrderID] [int] NULL, [CustomerID] [int] NULL, [total] [money] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOWhat is returned from this code? (answers are for the sum and then the count)
SELECT SUM(total) AS sum,
COUNT(total) AS count
FROM dbo.CustomerOrder;
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