MDX with Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services Cookbook - Third Edition

Over 70 practical recipes to analyze multi-dimensional data in SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services cubes

About This Book

• Updated for SQL Server 2016, this book helps you take advantage of the new MDX commands and the new features introduced in SSAS
• Perform time-related, context-aware, and business related-calculations with ease to enrich your Business Intelligence solutions
• Collection of techniques to write flexible and high performing MDX queries in SSAS with carefully structured examples

Who This Book Is For

This book is for anyone who has been involved in working with multidimensional data. If you are a multidimensional cube developer, a multidimensional database administrator, or a report developer who writes MDX queries to access multidimensional cube, this book will help you. If you are a power cube user or an experienced business analyst, you will also find this book invaluable in your data analysis. This book is for you are interested in doing more data analysis so that the management can make timely and accurate business decisions.

What You Will Learn

• Grasp the fundamental MDX concepts, features, and techniques
• Work with sets
• Work with Time dimension and create time-aware calculations
• Make analytical reports compact, concise, and efficient
• Navigate cubes
• Master MDX for reporting with Reporting Services (new)
• Perform business analytics
• Design efficient cubes and efficient MDX queries
• Create metadata-driven calculations (new)
• Capture MDX queries and many other techniques

In Detail

If you're often faced with MDX challenges, this is a book for you. It will teach you how to solve various real-world business requirements using MDX queries and calculations.

Examples in the book introduce an idea or a problem and then guide you through the process of implementing the solution in a step-by-step manner, inform you about the best practices and offer a deep knowledge in terms of how the solution works. Recipes are organized by chapters, each covering a single topic. They start slowly and logically progress to more advanced techniques.

In case of complexity, things are broken down. Instead of one, there are series of recipes built one on top of another. This way you are able to see intermediate results and debug potential errors faster.

Finally, the cookbook format is here to help you quickly identify the topic of interest and in it a wide range of practical solutions, that is – MDX recipes for your success.

Style and approach

This book is written in a cookbook format, where you can browse through and look for solutions to a particular problem in one place. Each recipe is short, to the point and grouped by relevancy. All the recipes are sequenced in a logical progression; you will be able to build up your understanding of the topic incrementally.

《SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services 多維數據分析實戰指南》
超過70個實用的食譜，教你如何在SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services多維數據分析立方體中進行分析。

關於本書
- 更新至SQL Server 2016，幫助你充分利用新的MDX指令和SSAS中引入的新功能。
- 輕鬆執行與時間、上下文和業務相關的計算，豐富你的商業智能解決方案。
- 通過精心結構化的示例，收集撰寫靈活且高效的SSAS MDX查詢的技巧。

本書適合對多維數據工作有所涉獵的任何人。無論你是多維立方體開發人員、多維數據庫管理員還是撰寫MDX查詢以訪問多維立方體的報表開發人員，本書都能幫助你。如果你是Power Cube用戶或經驗豐富的業務分析師，你也會發現本書在數據分析方面非常有價值。本書適合對進行更多數據分析以便管理層能夠及時做出準確的業務決策感興趣的讀者。

你將學到什麼
- 掌握基本的MDX概念、功能和技巧。
- 使用集合進行工作。
- 使用時間維度並創建與時間相關的計算。
- 製作簡潔、簡明且高效的分析報表。
- 導航立方體。
- 掌握用於報表的MDX（新功能）。
- 執行業務分析。
- 設計高效的立方體和高效的MDX查詢。
- 創建基於元數據的計算（新功能）。
- 捕獲MDX查詢和其他技巧。

詳細內容
如果你經常面臨MDX挑戰，這本書非常適合你。它將教你如何使用MDX查詢和計算解決各種現實世界的業務需求。

本書中的示例介紹了一個想法或問題，然後以逐步的方式引導你實施解決方案，告訴你最佳實踐並提供深入的解決方案知識。食譜按章節組織，每個章節涵蓋一個主題。它們從簡單開始，邏輯上逐漸進展到更高級的技術。

在複雜情況下，事情被分解。不再只有一個解決方案，而是一系列建立在彼此之上的食譜。這樣，你就能夠看到中間結果並更快地調試潛在的錯誤。

最後，這本書的食譜格式可以幫助你快速找到感興趣的主題，並提供廣泛的實用解決方案，即MDX食譜，助你成功。

風格和方法
本書以食譜格式撰寫，你可以瀏覽並在一個地方尋找特定問題的解決方案。每個食譜都簡短、直接，並按相關性分組。所有食譜都按照邏輯順序排列，你將能夠逐步建立對主題的理解。