MDX Solutions: with Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 and Hyperion Essbase

Serving as both a tutorial and a reference guide to the MDX (Multidimensional Expressions) query language, this book shows data warehouse developers what they need to know to build effective multidimensional data warehouses After a brief overview of the MDX language and a look at how it is used to access data in sophisticated, multidimensional databases and data warehousing, the authors move directly to providing practical examples of MDX in use New material covers changes in the MDX language itself as well as major changes in its implementation with the latest software releases of Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 and Hyperion Essbase Also covers more advanced techniques, like aggregation, query templates, and MDX optimization, and shows users what they need to know to access and analyze data to make better business decisions

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Title of ebook: MDX Solutions: with Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 and Hyperion Essbase
ISBN: 9780470007334
parent-ISBN: 9780471748083
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Internet download file size: 7236 kb
Pages: 744
Published: 02-2006
Released online for download: 02-17-2006
Author of eBook: Spofford, George
Author of eBook: Harinath, Sivakumar
Author of eBook: Webb, Christopher

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With Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 and Hyperion Essbase

Chapter One

Sorting and Ranking in MDX

A very common requirement for analytical applications is providing sorted and ranked views of data. Users are always interested in Top-10 lists, and often in seeing who or what was #1 last month or year. We'll cover the basics of sorting and ranking in this chapter, and also look at some ins and outs for more advanced kinds of sorting and ranking calculations.

Functions used in this chapter are Order(), Hierarchize(), Top-Count(), BottomCount(), TopSum(), BottomSum(), TopPercent(), BottomPercent(), YTD(), CoalesceEmpty(), Rank(), ParallelPeriod(), Generate(), Ancestor(), Descendants(), .Properties(), DrillDownLevelTop().

The Function Building Blocks

We took a brief look at the Order() function in Chapter 1, so we've seen one building block already. The full set of functions provided for sorting and ranking purpose ... read full excerpt from MDX Solutions: with Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 and Hyperion Essbase ebook

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Chapter One

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