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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786460998

Length 586 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

SQL Server

Concepts

Database Administration

Authors (2):

Li

Tomislav Piasevoli

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

MDX with Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services Cookbook Third Edition

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewer

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Preface

Elementary MDX Techniques

Working with Sets FREE CHAPTER

Working with Time

Concise Reporting

Navigation

MDX for Reporting

Business Analyses

When MDX is Not Enough

Metadata - Driven Calculations

On the Edge

Chapter 2. Working with Sets

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

Implementing the NOT IN set logic
Implementing the logical OR on members from different hierarchies
Iterating on a set to reduce it
Iterating on a set to create a new one
Iterating on a set using recursion
Performing complex sorts
Dissecting and debugging MDX queries
Implementing the logical AND on members from the same hierarchy

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Authors (2)

Li

Li

Sherry Li is an Analytic Consultant who works for a major financial organization with responsibilities in implementing data warehousing, Business Intelligence, and business reporting solutions. She specializes in automation and optimization of data gathering, storing, analyzing and providing data access for business to gain data-driven insights. She especially enjoys sharing her experience and knowledge in data ETL process, database design, dimensional modeling, and reporting in T-SQL and MDX. She has co-authored two books, the MDX with SSAS 2012 Cookbook and MDX with Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services Cookbook, which have helped many data professionals advanced their MDX skill in a very short time.

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Tomislav Piasevoli

Tomislav Piasevoli

Tomislav Piasevoli is a Business Intelligence (BI) specialist with years of experience working with Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS). He successfully implemented many still-in-use BI solutions, helped numerous people on MSDN forum, achieved the highest certification for SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS Maestro), and shared his expertise in form of MDX cookbooks. Tomislav currently works as a consultant at Piasevoli Analytics company (www.piasevoli.com) together with his brother Hrvoje. They specialize in Microsoft SQL Server Business Intelligence platform, SSAS primarily, and offer their BI skills worldwide. In addition to his regular work, Tomislav manages to find the time to present at local conferences or to write an article or two for local magazines. His contribution to the community has been recognized by Microsoft honoring him with the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for six consecutive years (2009-2015).

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