MDX Solutions: With Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services

by George Spofford

Understanding MDX is crucial for anyone designing or implementing a database in Microsoft's products. This informative book serves as both a tutorial and a reference guide by teaching you how to use MDX to access and analyze data for decision support. The standard language and Microsoft's own extensive additions to MDX are thoroughly explained. After the overview of the MDX language is presented, the author plunges into the tutorial, offering practical examples of MDX in use. He shows various techniques using MDX to access data and calculate results, and covers the more advanced techniques of aggregation, query templates, and MDX optimization.

This unrivaled book includes:
- Explanations of each MDX feature
- Simple and sophisticated applications
- Details of building and executing MDX queries
- Introduction to Visual Basic programming techniques using MDX
- Instructions for building and using client-side local cubes
- Detailed reference appendices for MDX operators, functions, and related connection settings

The accompanying CD-ROM includes:
- Samples of MDX expressions, queries, and local cubes
- MDXBuilder trial software
- Visual Basic sample code

Genres: Technical, Business, Programming

432 pages, Paperback

First published July 20, 2001