CHAPTER 10 MDX Concepts
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• For a member, a qualified name is the qualified name of the level or hierarchy
followed by the names of all the parents of the current member and the name of
the current member. For example:
[Time].[Time].[1998].[Q1].[January]
Referencing objects by qualified names is the oldest way of referencing objects, and is
somewhat faster than referencing object by names. It works quite well for dimensions,
hierarchies, and levels, but it has many drawbacks for specifying a member.
If a qualified name is created by concatenating the names of the member’s parents, the
name becomes immobile. It becomes outdated if the member is moved from one parent to
another. Think about a customer in the
Customers hierarchy: That customer could move ...