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Stairway to MDX - Level 15: Basic Set Functions: The Tail() Function

  • August 19, 2015 at 9:50 am

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  • September 30, 2015 at 10:30 am

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    Thanks for this series Bill. Just learning MDX at the moment so timely for me.

    Have to say though, that I wish the originator had stayed much closer to SQL when he created this language! Functions for EXCEPT, UNION and ORDER BY? Really?? What was Mosha thinking? (or drinking??)

    Gerald Britton, Pluralsight courses

  • September 30, 2015 at 11:53 am

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    Thanks for the input. MDX often challenges people who have mastered SQL, for more reasons than one. The functions you mention are but a few examples of significant conceptual differences in approaches to querying cube space. And with regard to Mosha, I have to say that my esteem for him - already quite high - only grows with the passage of time. 🙂

  • September 30, 2015 at 1:58 pm

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    Bill_Pearson (9/30/2015)

    Thanks for the input. MDX often challenges people who have mastered SQL, for more reasons than one. The functions you mention are but a few examples of significant conceptual differences in approaches to querying cube space. And with regard to Mosha, I have to say that my esteem for him - already quite high - only grows with the passage of time. 🙂

    ...and it was sooooooooooo unnecessary to put those in functions. Standard syntax would have worked just as well while lowering the learning curve a bit -- maybe more than a bit.

    Gerald Britton, Pluralsight courses

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