December 16, 2011
Welcome to my third post in a series of topics on MDX for SQL University. If you’re just now joining me, you should check out the first post, Location, Location, Location, and my previous post, Writing Simple Queries, to get oriented. I’m going to continue building on the concepts introduced in the earlier posts by showing [...]
December 14, 2011
This post is the second in a series of topics on MDX for SQL University. In my first post, Location, Location, Location, I introduced the tuple as a way to retrieve data from a cube with very precise instructions about what you want. In this post, I’m going to show you how to do that by [...]
December 13, 2011
Once again, I am serving as the professor at SQL University during MDX week. MDX stands for MultiDimension eXpression language and we use it to add business logic to cubes in the form of calculations, named sets, and KPIs as well as to configure security and to write reports. I can’t teach you everything you need [...]
October 21, 2011
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I first met Tomislav Piasevoli’s (blog|twitter) in 2008 at the PASS Summit in Seattle, and saw him again most recently again in Seattle at PASS Summit 2011. There I had the pleasure of telling him personally how much I liked his book. There are not many MDX books [...]
September 9, 2011
An interesting confluence of events this week takes me both back to the past as I ponder the future! What gives? Well, the recent release of Tomislav Piasevoli’s (blog|twitter) new book, MDX with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services Cookbook, reminded me of my first meeting with him at a PASS Summit event a [...]