What to make of it? Currently I am conducting a review on all existing solutions. These solutions have seen their share of developers over the years. Hence there are several “trademarks” to be found. One such trademark threw me off a bit. It seemed as if the same method had been applied to all queries in the solution. For…
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SSMS Quick Tip
If you ever need to test Analysis Services roles, you can easily do so either by browsing the cube or by means of a query. When browsing a cube through SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) or Bisuness Intelligence Developer Studio (BIDS), you can select one or more roles to be enforced on data, by clicking the little…
How to get SSAS to return the correct currency format.
Although setting the language and collation correctly, it’s not easy to see why a specific MDX would not return the right formatting, in regards to monetary, thousands seperator etc. There is however a way of forcing the language, through a property available on the calculated measure. In the following example, I’ll show that even though…
MDX Query using other hierarchy in same dimension as in slicer
The other day a coworker of mine presented me with a problem in one of our solutions. His basic pain was, that the front-end of the application only allowed for one dropdown containing whatever dimension was set up to be displayed. This dimension is to act as slicer in a scorecard application. Since his KPIs were…
Pct af totalen
Et eksempel på hvordan man kan beregne pct. af totalsalg og pct af salget på niveauet over det aktuelle. WITH MEMBER [Measures].[Pct of total] AS ‘SUM( {[Product].CurrentMember}, [Measures].[Unit Sales]) /SUM( {[Product].DefaultMember}, [Measures].[Unit Sales])’, FORMAT_STRING=’#0.00%’ MEMBER [Measures].[Pct of parent total] AS ‘IIF( [Product].Parent <> NULL, SUM( {[Product].CurrentMember}, [Measures].[Unit Sales]) /SUM( {[Product].Parent.Children}, [Measures].[Unit Sales]), 1)’, FORMAT_STRING=’#0.00%’ SELECT…
