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MDX Guide for SQL Folks: Part I - Navigating The Cube

  • October 31, 2012 at 10:09 pm

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    Comments posted to this topic are about the item MDX Guide for SQL Folks: Part I - Navigating The Cube

    Frank Banin
    BI and Advanced Analytics Professional.

  • November 1, 2012 at 3:15 am

    #1554898

    Thank you much for such a wonderfull comparision between SQL and MDX..

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  • November 1, 2012 at 8:19 am

    #1555029

    Nice job on explaining MDX; I look forward to the later installments.

    Just out of curiosity, will you be addressing (via comparison) sets and tuples?

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  • November 1, 2012 at 8:21 am

    #1555030

    This is something I've wanted to have in my pocket for a long time.

    SQL has always made sense to me... MDX has not... and until I've read and re-read this article and its sequels a few times I fear it still won't.


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  • November 1, 2012 at 8:49 am

    #1555048

    Excellent resource! Has cleared some fog and I am eagerly awaiting future installments. Thank you so much for this.

  • November 1, 2012 at 8:59 am

    #1555054

    Nice Job!

  • November 1, 2012 at 1:27 pm

    #1555164

    Thank you, thank you, thank you!

    I have looked over so many books and sites that try to teach MDX and none have simplified it like this article.

    For some reason every other guide tells you to forget everything that you know about T-SQL and instead they start off with the theory of cubes and how to write MDX queries based on cube theory. While it is important to understand how a dimensional model works, there would be a lot more buy-in on MDX if they would instead show how a SQL query would be written in MDX. Then they could explain the dimensional concepts while they show the query differences. Just as this article does. Every single SQL server developer who wants to learn MDX immediately tries to turn standard SQL queries into MDX. So why not teach MDX this way? I will be using this document now as a training resource since it makes so much sense.

    Thanks again and I look forward to more articles on this subject!

  • November 1, 2012 at 3:30 pm

    #1555219

    See Microsoft - even DW can be explained in a straightforward, clear manner. Hire this man immediately.

  • November 1, 2012 at 6:47 pm

    #1555253

    Awesome. Thank you very much!

  • November 2, 2012 at 4:54 am

    #1555393

    Very good article mate. Waiting for another article for MDX Guide..

  • November 2, 2012 at 7:59 am

    #1555487

    Thank you very much for this article. It was really easy to understand your guide.

    Keep up the good work!

  • November 2, 2012 at 8:39 am

    #1555512

    Thanks so much! Makes more sense now and no longer going to run away screaming when somebody says "do you know anything about this mdx thing?":w00t:

  • November 3, 2012 at 2:04 pm

    #1555789

    Yes i will..sorry for the delay in the resp. I am in New jersey still out off power

    Frank Banin
    BI and Advanced Analytics Professional.

  • November 3, 2012 at 2:11 pm

    #1555790

    Frank - yes - I know - my office is down there too. Hope you're back to business soon! An IT mind is a dangerous thing to waste.

  • November 3, 2012 at 5:07 pm

    #1555793

    Let me add to the kudos; great article -- well done.

    Thanks,

    Rob

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