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On occasion you may find that your MDX queries don’t quite give you the result that you expect, which sometimes may be due to the way in which a certain bit of MDX has changed the context of part of your query. This can sometimes be tough to figure out...
Master Data Services Collections are probably not the first feature that come to mind when you think of the MDS product. The hierarchies and member grids tend to be the core functionality, but as this post will hopefully show, MDS Collections are useful...
This is just a quick post to announce a range of SQL Server training courses, organised (and in some cases delivered) by Chris Webb . To start off there’s a SQL Server course delivered by Christian Bolton in December, followed by an Analysis Services...
As you may have already seen, Packt have released a new MDX book, namely MDX with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services Cookbook by Tomislav Piasevoli. The book is written as cookbook, meaning that you can choose the individual ‘recipes’ that...
As I’m sure you’ve seen, registration for SQLBits 9 – Query Across the Mersey is now open. This time around I’ll be running a deep-dive training day with Tim Kent on Master Data Services. This will be a full day of training, showing you how MDS can be...
Although I didn't mention it, the inspiration for my last post was the excellent MDX Solutions 2nd Edition . Whilst flicking through the book a while back, I though it would be interesting to see how DAX and PowerPivot could handle the so called 'Common...
In the recent PPS Planning projects that I've been involved in, the challenges have often been around subjects such as business rules, hence the often recurring theme of this blog. Recently the tables were turned though, as I was told by a user that...
Having posted about NativeSql business rules a while back , I though that I might as well cover NativeMdxQuery business rules also, especially as there isn't too much documentation available on the web for this subject. NativeMdxQuery is a rule implementation...
One of the great features of PEL is that you can choose either a SQL or MDX implementation for your rules, depending on what you want to achieve. Whilst the MDX rules are much less restrictive than the SQL rules, they can sometimes run slower, depending...
I'll be giving a talk titled 'PEL Vs MDX' at the UK SQL Server Community's BI Evening on the 17th July at Microsoft's TVP offices in Reading. The content will be geared towards MS BI developers, and will highlight the differences between...
PerformancePoint provides you with a few options when you want to move data between models, the most obvious of which is Associations. However, there is also the powerful PEL Allocate statement.... So which method should you use to move data? Associations...
Analysis Services 2005 comes with the useful Add Business Intelligence wizard, which will assist you with numerous calculations, including 12 Months to Date. However, I tend to write such calculations myself, especially having found out that the 12 Months...