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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

Introduction

Time–handling features are an important part of every Business Intelligence (BI) system. Programming languages, database systems, they all incorporate various time-related functions and Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) is no exception there. In fact, that's one of its main strengths.

The MDX language has various time-related functions designed to work with a special type of dimension called Time and its typed attributes. While it's true that some of those functions work with any type of dimension, their usefulness is most obvious when applied to time-type dimensions. An additional prerequisite is the existence of multi-level hierarchies, also known as user hierarchies, in which types of levels must be set correctly or some of the time-related functions will either give false results or will not work at all.

Because of the reasons described earlier, and the fact that almost every cube will have one or more time dimensions, we've decided to dedicate...

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