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Expert Cube Development with SSAS Multidimensional Models

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Product type Book
Published in Feb 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849689908
Pages 402 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Expert Cube Development with SSAS Multidimensional Models
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Designing the Data Warehouse for Analysis Services 2. Building Basic Dimensions and Cubes 3. Designing More Complex Dimensions 4. Measures and Measure Groups 5. Handling Transactional-Level Data 6. Adding Calculations to the Cube 7. Adding Currency Conversion 8. Query Performance Tuning 9. Securing the Cube 10. Going in Production 11. Monitoring Cube Performance and Usage DAX Query Support Index

Chapter 6. Adding Calculations to the Cube

This chapter explains how to enhance the analytical capabilities of our cube with MDX calculations. Calculations, especially calculated members, are very common in cubes as they are a very easy and convenient way to generate new and useful business metrics from the basic values you have imported from your data warehouse.

This chapter does not cover basic MDX concepts, although we will provide several examples of MDX usage. For a complete reference of the MDX language, or for a thorough tutorial, you should refer to other books, such as MDX Solutions, Fast Track to MDX, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 MDX Step by Step, or MDX with SSAS 2012 Cookbook.

Reading this chapter, you will learn about:

  • The different kinds of calculated members

  • Several ready-to-use examples of calculated members

  • The difference between using calculated measures and calculation dimensions

  • Defining and using named sets

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