Discover, through a hands-on practice exercise, a more sophisticated business use for the MDX BottomCount() function, in combination with the Generate(), Descendants(), Ancestor() and other functions we have explored within our series. Join BI Architect Bill Pearson in this, the second part, of an extended examination of the MDX BottomCount() function.
2008-12-05
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Most of the time we move data from an RDBMS to a cube, but there are places where you might want to provide a feedback loop to the RDBMS. Andrew Muyobo shows how SSIS can help you do this.
2008-11-21
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Business Intelligence Architect Bill Pearson continues his exploration of Attribute Members, in another member of a subseries surrounding significant components of the Analysis Services dimensional model. In this article we examine the attribute member Name property, whose appropriate use is important to good model design and overall system performance.
2008-10-24
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Isolate worst / lowest performers from the member population at large, and perform sophisticated analysis with BottomCount(). Join MSAS Architect Bill Pearson in the first of a pair of articles focusing upon the powerful BottomCount() function, where we experience “hands-on” some of the possible ways it can offer multi-perspective decision support.
2008-10-15
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MSAS Architect Bill Pearson leads hands-on exercises providing exposure to the use of the MEMBER_VALUE intrinsic member property. Join us in generating simple lists, as well as datasets to support report parameter picklists.
2008-09-23
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Join MSAS Architect Bill Pearson in hands-on exercises, where we gain exposure to the use of the MEMBER_UNIQUE_NAME property in generating simple lists, as well as datasets to support report parameter picklists.
2008-08-21
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Writing high-performance reports against Analysis Services cubes means learning MDX to some extent. Parameterization of MDX functions is one of those things that cannot be delivered solely via graphical MDX Editor. BI Architect Bill Pearson demonstrates a way to parameterize the highly useful TopCount() function.
2008-08-08
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Parameterization of MDX functions is one of those things that cannot be delivered solely via graphical MDX Editor – but then, you really didn’t think that you could avoid actually touching MDX at all, did you? BI Architect Bill Pearson demonstrates a way to parameterize the highly useful LastPeriods() function.
2008-06-24
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This document describes how Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 can be applied to common business problems. This document assumes some familiarity with MDX.
2008-05-02
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Business Intelligence Architect Bill Pearson continues his examination of MDX functions, this time introducing StripCalculatedMembers(). In this article, we expose the function, and then lead a hands-on practice session with examples that reinforce the concepts.
2008-04-18
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