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MDX with Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services Cookbook

You're reading from   MDX with Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services Cookbook Over 70 practical recipes to analyze multi-dimensional data in SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services cubes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786460998
Length 586 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Tomislav Piasevoli Tomislav Piasevoli
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Sherry Li Sherry Li
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Elementary MDX Techniques FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Sets 3. Working with Time 4. Concise Reporting 5. Navigation 6. MDX for Reporting 7. Business Analyses 8. When MDX is Not Enough 9. Metadata - Driven Calculations 10. On the Edge

Displaying a few important members, with the others as a single row, and the total at the end


There are times when isolating the best or worst members is not enough. In addition to the few important members, business users often want to see the total of all the other not-so-important members, as well as a single row representing the total of all the members.

An example of this type of reporting requirement is shown in the following table:

Reseller Sales Amount

Top 1st Reseller

$877,107.19

Top 2nd Reseller

$853,849.18

Top 3rd Reseller

$841,908.77

Top 4th Reseller

$816,755.58

Top 5th Reseller

$799,277.90

Other Resellers

     $76,261,698.37

All Resellers

     $80,450,596.98

In the first recipe in this chapter, Isolating the best N members in a set, we learned how to isolate the best members using the TopCount() function. The challenge in this recipe is to get only one row for the total of all Other Resellers, and only one row for the total of All Resellers. We...

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