February 2005 - Posts

• Understanding changes in Yukon MDX Part I

  When I did a review of “ Analysis Services 2000 vs 2005 ” presentation, I mentioned, that changes to MDX were not covered at all in it, and I also noted, that changes to MDX in Yukon could easily fill several presentations by themselves. And they do. Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 16, 2005 8:06 PM by mosha | (Comments Off) Filed under: ssas

• Performance of aggregating data from lower levels in MDX

  In the "MDX Solutions" book, at pages 69-70, George Spofford discusses the task of computing expression [Units Sold] * [Last Update of Price] at the leaf-level cells and then aggregating the result up to the higher levels. George gives the following Read More... Posted Sunday, February 13, 2005 7:34 PM by mosha | (Comments Off) Filed under: mdx

• OLAP and GIS - Analysis Services and MapPoint

  Ever wanted to get the data from your Analysis Services cube into the geographic map. It is actually easier then you think. There is a little publicized free OLAP AddIn for Microsoft MapPoint which allows you to do exactly that. The way this AddIn works Read More... Posted Friday, February 04, 2005 8:57 AM by mosha | (Comments Off) Filed under: client apps