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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

Chapter 3. Working with Time

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Calculating the Year-To-Date (YTD) value
  • Calculating the Year-over-Year (YoY) growth (parallel periods)
  • Calculating moving averages
  • Finding the last date with data
  • Getting values on the last date with data
  • Calculating today's date using the STRING functions
  • Calculating today's date using the MemberValue function
  • Calculating today's date using an attribute hierarchy
  • Calculating the difference between two dates
  • Calculating the difference between two times
  • Calculating parallel periods for multiple dates in a set
  • Calculating parallel periods for multiple dates in a slicer
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