CHAPTER 14
Reporting with MDX Queries
But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it.
Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) is a Microsoft-owned specification, not an open standard language. But, it has been adopted by many vendors and is considered an industry standard for querying and manipulating multidimensional data for SSAS.
If you are working with OLAP cubes, you will likely be working with MDX at some point. While you do not have to be an expert in MDX to work with SSAS cubes, acquiring a more in-depth understanding of the language is helpful in a number of ways. For example, calculated members, KPIs, ...
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