MDX # 39 – Find Default Measure using MDX Query
In Chapter 1 of our book, MDX with SSAS 2012, we’ve devoted a section “Setting a default member of a...
2014-04-23 (first published: 2014-04-15)
3,103 reads
MDX # 40 – CROSS JOIN does not return Cartesian product of two hierarchies from the same dimension
Correction
4/25/2014
Thanks to Chris Webb’s comment (see the comment section). I am making a correction on this blog.
The title of this...
2014-04-15
1,910 reads
MDX+SSAS #38–CALL ASSP.DMV() to document cubes in SSAS 2005
While you are writing and testing MDX queries in Microsoft SQL Server management Studio (SSMS), how many times you find...
2014-02-12
1,411 reads
MDX+SSAS #37–Ignore unrelated dimension or not
In Adventure Works cube 2008 or 2012, in the Dimension Usage tab, you will see that many intercepts of measure...
2014-02-07
2,526 reads
SSIS #116–What is the variable value at runtime?
Using variables in SSIS packages can make your ETL process more dynamic and respond to different scenarios during runtime.
Not...
2014-01-29
9,300 reads
SSRS #73 – Marlon Ribunal and Mickey Stuewe’s New Book: Reporting Services 2012 Blueprints
The book’s link is here, SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services Blueprints.
This book is a step-by-step, task-driven tutorial that goes straight...
2014-01-24
1,143 reads
2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million...
2014-01-01
397 reads
MDX #36 – Many thanks to the reviewers
In this blog, I’d like to give special thanks to the people below who have taken time to write reviews...
2014-01-01
513 reads
MDX #35 – Properties() function with TYPED flag
Reader Query
My publisher recently forwarded me a question from a reader about the “Using the PROPERTIES() function to retrieve data...
2013-12-27
1,503 reads
MDX+SSRS #33 – Retrieve manager’s key and fully-qualified member name
A co-worker recently worked on a SSRS report and wanted to use a specific manager’s team for testing. The Manager...
2013-11-18 (first published: 2013-11-08)
2,326 reads
Blogs
How to Run Databases on Kubernetes: An 8-Step Guide
In this step-by-step tutorial, learn how to run MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and other stateful...
Episode 11 of Simple Talks: Oracle
By Steve Jones
The 11th episode is now live, recorded a few weeks ago at the PASS...
A New Word: Mornden
By Steve Jones
mornden – n. the self-container pajama universe shared by two people on a long...
Forums
What is the best index strategy for a table that gets truncated?
Hi everyone My SSIS package does a bulk insert of csv files into a...
Blob Storage automated downloads
Dipping my toes into the waters of Azure and of course before I get...
Announcing SQL Server 2025
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Announcing SQL Server 2025
Question of the Day
Running Steve's Code
Can you run this code in any of your SQL Server 2019 databases without error?
CREATE OR ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[StevesAmazingProc]
AS
SELECT Consumer_ID ,
Trend_Category ,
Bit_Trace
FROM NewWorldDB.dbo.MarketTrend;
GO See possible answers