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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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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

Capturing MDX queries generated by SSAS frontends


Some tools allow you to write your own MDX queries; others generate them for you. If you want to know what these other MDX queries look like, you need to use another tool that will tell you that. One such tool is the SQL Server Profiler, which comes as a part of the SQL Server installation. Others might come as add-ins to the application that generates MDX queries.

In this recipe, we're going to show how to capture the MDX query that has been sent by an application to the server using SQL Server Profiler.

Getting ready

In Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio for SQL Server 2016, SQL Server Profiler can be found in the Tools menu:

If after starting the Profiler a window appears offering us to select the connection, press ESC for now. This time we will start from scratch.

We will start a new template by clicking on the File menu, followed by Templates, and then choosing the New Template... item.

Select Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services...

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