MDX (MultiDimensional Expressions) in 148 minutes
If you want to understand the fundamentals of MDX in less than 3 hours - this article can be helpful.
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OLAP
Build an OLAP Cube in SSAS using an ADO.NET Data Provider
SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) is an analytical data engine used in decision support and business analytics. It provides enterprise-grade semantic data models for business reports and client applications, such as Power BI, Excel, Reporting Services reports, and other data visualization tools. When paired with ADO.NET data providers, you can create cubes from external data […]
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Day 7 of The OLAP Sprint
The final day of Simon's journey to improve his OLAP knowledge and build a prototype cube.
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Day 5 of The OLAP Sprint
Day 5, the first real day of the Summit. Amir Netz' session and a little cube work.
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Day 4 of The OLAP Sprint
Day 4 is the halfway point. Another pre-con, this one from Peter Myers that looks at Power View and Matrix reports.
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Finding Trailing Spaces
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Question of the Day
Finding Trailing Spaces
I have some data in a SQL Server 2025 database. It looks like this for the dbo.Customer table:
CustomerID CustomerName PreferredName 1 Steve Steve 2 Andy Andy 3 Brian Brian 4 Allan Allan 5 Devin Devin 6 Steve Steve 7 Sally SallyI want to detect which names have a single trailing space. The CustomerName is a varchar() and the PreferredName is a CHAR(). Does this query detect the problem rows?
SELECT
CustomerID,
CustomerName,
PreferredName
FROM Customer
WHERE CustomerName <> RTRIM(CustomerName)
OR PreferredName <> RTRIM(PreferredName); See possible answers