Adam and Jennifer Salvo are IT professionals with over 10 years of diverse experience. Jennifer is a Business Intelligence developer focusing on the Microsoft BI stack (SSIS, SSAS and SSRS). Her prior work experience includes software development, systems analysis, end-user support, training, and SharePoint administration. Adam is a .NET technical lead with a current emphasis on Dev Ops and Windows Azure. His prior work experience includes .NET development, SQL Server administration, and BizTalk development. They also maintain a personal blog at salvoz.com.

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MDX Root Function

This week I discovered an incredibly useful MDX function, the function is called Root.  Full documentation can be found here....

2014-01-08 (first published: )

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Blog Post

MDX Root Function

This week I discovered an incredibly useful MDX function, the function is called Root.  Full documentation can be found here. In the past, I have encountered scenarios where I...

2014-01-05

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Blog Post

MDX Root Function

This week I discovered an incredibly useful MDX function, the function is called Root.  Full documentation can be found here. In the past, I have encountered scenarios where I...

2014-01-05

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Question of the Day

Creating JSON III

In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:

BeerIDBeerName
1Becks
2Fat Tire
3Mac n Jacks
4Alaskan Amber
8Kirin
I run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
    BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
What are the results?

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