Practical MDX Queries: For Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2008 by Tennick, Art;

Short description:

Featuring 300 ready-to-use, downloadable queries, this solutions-oriented guide explains how to extract actionable business intelligence and increase effective decision-making by maximizing the power of MDX queries.

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300+ ready-to-use, powerful MDX queries

This hands-on guide shows you how to use Multi-Dimensional Expressions (MDX) to extract business intelligence from multi-dimensional cubes. Practical MDX Queries contains more than 300 downloadable MDX queries that can be applied across a wide variety of business intelligence-related problems. The use, syntax, and results of each query are described in detail. The book emphasizes MDX for use with SSAS within SSMS, but the techniques and queries also apply to SSRS, SSIS, MDX in SQL, MDX in DMX, MDX in XMLA, WinForms, WebForms, PerformancePoint Server, ProClarity, and many third-party applications.

• Work with dimensions, hierarchies, levels, and members
• Navigate both horizontally and vertically across dimensions and hierarchies
• Sort the results of your queries
• Access subsets of dimension members and measure values using the Where clause and Filter function
• Use MDX query calculations
• Extract and manipulate dates and times
• Produce totals, subtotals, and changes cross time using aggregate and other functions
• Create, visualize, and manipulate sets
• Work with perspectives, subselects, and subcubes
• Display and hide empty cells
• Use, modify, format, and create Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Deliver MDX query results to end users

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.

300+ ready-to-use, powerful MDX queries

This hands-on guide shows you how to use Multi-Dimensional Expressions (MDX) to extract business intelligence from multi-dimensional cubes. Practical MDX Queries contains more than 300 downloadable MDX queries that can be applied across a wide variety of business intelligence-related problems. The use, syntax, and results of each query are described in detail. The book emphasizes MDX for use with SSAS within SSMS, but the techniques and queries also apply to SSRS, SSIS, MDX in SQL, MDX in DMX, MDX in XMLA, WinForms, WebForms, PerformancePoint Server, ProClarity, and many third-party applications.

• Work with dimensions, hierarchies, levels, and members
• Navigate both horizontally and vertically across dimensions and hierarchies
• Sort the results of your queries
• Access subsets of dimension members and measure values using the Where clause and Filter function
• Use MDX query calculations
• Extract and manipulate dates and times
• Produce totals, subtotals, and changes cross time using aggregate and other functions
• Create, visualize, and manipulate sets
• Work with perspectives, subselects, and subcubes
• Display and hide empty cells
• Use, modify, format, and create Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Deliver MDX query results to end users

Table of Contents:

1 Hello World - Easy Yet Effective Queries
2 Astrophysical - Playing with Dimensions
3 Families and Friends - Navigating Dimensions
4 Bring Order - Sorting Results
5 Slice, Dice, and Filter - Using Where and Filter
6 Using the Abacus - Introduction to Calculations
7 Is Time a Dimension? Working with Dates and Times
8 Clockwork - Calculations Using Dates and Times
9 Venn Diagrams - Visualizing and Manipulating Sets
10 Views on Cubes - Working with Subcubes
11 Not All There - Dealing with Empty Cells
12 Smiley Faces - Working with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
13 Hodgepodge - A Chapter of Miscellaneous Techniques
14 After You Finish