Learning MDX

• Brandie Tarvin

  SSC Guru

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  February 17, 2011 at 8:36 am

  #235266

  Going to self-teaching route. It's been a while since I've been to a SSAS class, and it was a general overview class. I vaguely remember things I sat in on at SQL Saturdays, etc. Basically, I need a major refresher from the very beginning.

  I've created myself a cube, but now I need to check the data above and beyond the cube browser. So, does anyone have links to good blogs on MDX (that works for both 2k5 and 2k8) or recommendations for books that focus on MDX?

  I'm not looking for a generic overview of SSAS. I'm looking for "here's how to write queries in MDX against your SSAS cube."

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• Ken McKelvey

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  February 18, 2011 at 4:01 am

  #1288731

  There are some MDX articles in the Stairways menu, above Forums, on SSC.

• SQLSmasher

  Right there with Babe

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  February 18, 2011 at 4:25 am

  #1288733

  Hi,

  For the SSAS in general goto this link

  http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/1429671/Introduction-to-SQL-Server-2000-Analysis-Services-Creating-Our-First-Cube.htm

  and for MDX scripting see this link

  http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/1495511/MDX-at-First-Glance-Introduction-to-SQL-Server-MDX-Essentials.htm

• Koen Verbeeck

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  February 18, 2011 at 7:27 am

  #1288843

  Chris Webb has some MDX blog posts from time to time:

  http://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/category/mdx/

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