Mastering Analysis
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[January 21, 2004]
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January 2004 MDX Puzzle Solution
Measure a store's performance by comparing it to other stores in the database.
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Russ Whitney
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The Art of Cube Design
Because forecasting depends on the needs of your business, creating a forecasting cube often requires some artistic finesse. Here are some techniques you can use to solve some common cube-design problems.
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Russ Whitney
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Analysis Services Security and HTTP
If you’ve ever tried to connect users to Analysis Services over HTTP, you know you can’t use the default security protocol. Fortunately, Analysis Services lets you choose from three security options.
SQL Server Magazine
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Russ Whitney
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November 2003 MDX Puzzle Solution
Discover the solution to the previous MDX puzzle.
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Russ Whitney
January 2004 MDX Puzzle
Challenge yourself with this month's puzzle.
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Russ Whitney
A Deeper Look at Drillthrough
Microsoft provides an example of how to create drillthrough support for Excel’s PivotTable components, but the example can be hard to follow. Here’s an explanation to help you use the example better.
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Russ Whitney
October 2003 MDX Puzzle Solution
Learn how to narrow a list to show only the items that are relevant in a given situation.
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November 2003 MDX Puzzle
Learn a way to put a number into context to determine its relevance.
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Dimension Writeback
Dimension writeback is an essential function of budgeting and planning applications. You can create your own cube to learn how dimension writeback works in SQL Server 2000 Enterprise and Developer editions.
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September 2003 MDX Puzzle Solution
Discover a query that returns the top 10 non-beer products that were purchased with beer in the FoodMart 2000 Sales cube.
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October 2003 MDX Puzzle
Try your hand at writing a query that returns all the FoodMart 2000 Sales cube customers whose total Store Sales equal at least 5 percent of the sales to the customer who has the highest total Store Sales.
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Russ Whitney
All About Nothing
OLAP cubes are notorious for having lots of empty (or null) cells. Including these empty cells in your result sets can bog down your analysis applications. But you can use these tricks to eliminate empties.
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August 2003 MDX Puzzle Solution
Here's a query that uses the TOPCOUNT() function to rank customers who aren't single and female.
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September 2003 MDX Puzzle
Use the FoodMart 2000 Sales cube to find which 10 non-beer products customers purchased most frequently in the same transaction with beer products.
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Member-Properties Boot Camp
Member properties let you store additional information about dimension members, but they can do much more. Are you getting all you can from your member properties? Here are 10 ways to pump up member-property effectiveness.
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July 2003 MDX Puzzle Solution
Learn how to create two calculated members that solve July's puzzle.
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August 2003 MDX Puzzle
Can you find the top 10 single female customers without listing the other three types of customer--single male, married male, and married female?
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Analyzing Money
Working with any OLAP solution can help you better understand the technology, but using data that has personal meaning can help you learn even more about OLAP. Here's a practice solution that uses data you'll care about--your personal finances.
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Money Macro
This VBA macro steps through Excel and reformats the data in a way that makes it easy to import into Access so that you can use it to build a cube.
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July 2003 MDX Puzzle
Challenge yourself to create an MDX query that finds the most recent nonzero sales amount for each Los Angeles customer for each quarter of 1997.
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