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Calculated measure/dimension

I'm relatively new to MDX and am trying to accomplish what I think should be an easy thing, but I haven't found any solution. I have a sales cube and one of the measure is profit which can be negative or positive. I want to get one measure which is effectively the sum of positive profit, i.e. only include in the new measure those profit...

MDX Filtering at fact level

Hi folks, im pretty newbie at mdx sintaxys. I have the next requirement that i need to be able to solve it using mdx, if its possible. I need to show the number of SALE transactions which amout value is greater than "X" , the number of SALE transactions which amount value is less than "Y" , the number of CREDIT transactions which amout...

MDX Year on Year Sales by Months

Hi all, I'm stuck on a MDX query, I'm trying to retrieve the following results: [Time].[2009] [Time].[2010] [Time].[Months].Members [Measures].[Sales] [Measures].[Sales] So I would like to compare the sales which were in 2009 against 2010 by month. In terms of a chart I would have two series one fo...

OLAP MDX calculating percentages displays first member instead of average

I am calculating percentages in Analysis Services 2008 using MDX by dividing the sum by the count = IIF ([Measures].[STAT VALUE Count]=0,NULL,([Measures].[STAT VALUE]/100)/[Measures].[STAT VALUE Count]) My grain is at the hourly level and is a percentage value itself When browsing the cube and applying a Time dimension hierachy of ye...

MDX - Using "iif" function in the "Where" section

Hi I'd like to know how to make that "iif" work. Basically, I need to filter the engineering "product codes" when originator is "John Smith". currentmember is not working or that iif is not working, SELECT { ( [Time].[Fiscal Hierarchy Time Calculations].[Month to Date], [Measures].[Sell - Bookings] ) } ON C...

MDX: How To Aggregate Hierarchy Level Members With Same Name

Greetings, I am new to MDX, and am having trouble understanding how to perform an aggregation on a hierarchy level with members that have the same names. This query is particular to Microsoft Analysis Services 2000 cubes. I have a given hierarchy dimension with levels defined as follows: [Segment].[Flow].[Segment Week] Within the [...

MDX: Aggregates over a set

Hi! What I am trying to achieves looks very simple, yet I cannot make it work. My facts are orders which have a date and I have a typical time dimension with the 'Month" and 'Year' levels. I would like to get an output which lists the number of orders for the last 6 months and the total, like this: Oct 2009 20 Nov 2009 30 Dec 200...

MDX: How to exclude ancestors from being returned in this query?

I have this MDX query: Exists([Group].[Group Hierarchy].allmembers, {[Group].[Group Full Name].&[121 - Group A], [Group].[Group Full Name].&[700000 - Group C]}) ... which works fine EXCEPT that it returns all of the ancestors of the specified groups as well. What I want is to return JUST the groups from the hierarchy with the spe...

MDX: Problem filtering results in MDX query used in Reporting Services query

Why aren't my results being filtered by the members from my [Group Hierarchy] returned via the filter() statment below? SELECT NON EMPTY {[Measures].[Group Count], [Measures].[Overall Group Count] } ON COLUMNS, NON EMPTY { [Survey].[Surveys By Year].[Survey Year].ALLMEMBERS * [Response Status].[Response S...

MDX Current Month Problem

Hi all, I have the following MDX query: WITH MEMBER [Measures].[TY Sales] AS 'SUM([Measures].[Sales])' MEMBER [Measures].[YTD Sales] AS 'SUM(PERIODSTODATE([Time.Fiscals].[2009], [Time.Fiscals].CurrentMember), [Measures].[Sales])' MEMBER [Measures].[LY Sales] AS 'SUM(PARALLELPERIOD([Time.Fiscals].[2009].[8], 1...

Preserving Language across inline Calculated Members in SSAS

Problem: I need to retrieve the language of a given cell from the cube. The cell is defined by code-generated MDX, which can have an arbitrary level of indirection as far as calculated members and sets go (defined in the WITH clause). SSAS appears to ignore the Language of the specified members when you declare a calculated member inline...

Subselecting with MDX

Greetings stack overflow community. I've recently started building an OLAP cube in SSAS2008 and have gotten stuck. I would be grateful if someone could at least point me towards the right direction. Situation: Two fact tables, same cube. FactCalls holds information about calls made by subscribers, FactTopups holds topup data. Both ta...

How to create following table using MDX Scripting in Sql Server 2005?

Hi! I have the following table , Database Table: BatchID BatchName Chemical Value ---------------------------------------------- BI-1 BN-1 CH-1 1 BI-2 BN-2 CH-2 2 ---------------------------------------------- I need to display the following table. ...

MDX Filter a dimention with another dimension

To all excuse my ignorance, but im new to MDX below is the query im trying to run SELECT NON EMPTY { [Measures].[Task Burn Down] } ON COLUMNS, NON EMPTY { ([Calendar].[Date].[Date].ALLMEMBERS * [Priority].[Priority Code].[Priority Code].ALLMEMBERS ) } DIMENSION PROPERTIES MEMBER_CAPTION, MEMBER_UNIQUE_NAME ON ROWS FROM ( SELE...

MDX Except function in where clause

Hi, i'm having problem restricting a query in mdx, using except function at where clause. i need to retrieved a set of data but which not in an specific set. Then i created the next query: select {[Measures].[Amount], [Measures].[Transaction Cost], [Measures].[Transaction Number]} ON COLUMNS,{[ManualProcessing].[All ManualProcessings].[...

How to create following cube?

Hi! For example........... Database Table: BatchID BatchName Chemical Value -------------------------------------------------------- BI-1 BN-1 CH-1 1 BI-2 BN-2 CH-2 2 -------------------------------------------------------- I need to display follow...

MDX: use dimension values on columns

Hi, I wanted to use dimension properties on columns. So, in the mdx query, I dragged in those properties from the dimension "member properties". But, for some reason, the values for those properties are nulls only. However, if the dimension members are used on rows, they have legitimate values. Is there any other way, I can pull in th...

Combining MDX and SQL datasets into one for a drill-through report??

Hello, Wondering if I could get some advice and direction on this following requirement: Need to Create a SSRS report with two datasets, one MDX and one SQL. I then need to join those two datasets to create a third dataset which is to be used by a drill though report. How can I combine those datasets into one and use that as a Dataset...

Obtaining Current Fiscal Year from Hierarchy with MDX

I'm building a report in Reporting Services 2005 based on a SSAS 2005 cube. The basic idea of the report is that they want to see sales for this fiscal year to date vs. last year sales year to date. It sounds simple, but being that this is my first "real" report based on SSAS, I'm having a hell of a time. First, how would one calculat...

The query contains the XXXXXName parameter, which is not declared. SSRS2008/MDX query

Parser: The query contains the XXXXXName parameter, which is not declared. (msmgdsrv) I have no idea why I keep getting this error. It occurs when I change the MDX in the query designer and trying OKing out of the query designer. The strange thing is that the parameter DOES exist, I can see it in the parameters section of the dataset d...