MDX Tutorial

 

This tutorial walks you through some of the fundament MDX concepts, before taking a simple MDX statement and progressively building on it to produce a more complex statement. As you move though each step you will learn progressively more interesting techniques.  By the end of the tutorial you will have a sound knowledge of the fundaments of MDX plus some of the more advanced principles.

Cube OverviewThis article describes the structure of the cube used in the tutorial including its dimensions, levels and properties. 
MDX ConceptsThis article describes the basic concepts of OLAP cubes and MDX statements. 
Simple MDXThis article uses a simple MDX statement to explain the basic structure of MDX.
Simple MDX FunctionsThis article expands on the previous introducing basic MDX functions.
Specifying More Complex Tuples In An AxesThis article takes the simple statement in the previous section and enhances it by adding more complex axes definitions. It also introduces further functions, and methods for including total rows and columns in an MDX statement.
Calculated MembersThis article introduces the concept of calculated members.
Calculated Members ContinuedCalculated members are expanded upon and several new key words and functions are introduced.
Exercise 1 - Overtime ReportThis article contains an exercise that uses the techniques introduced in the previous articles.

Last Reviewed: Sunday, 22 February 2004 12:37:39 p.m.
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