I stumbled across a small MDX performance tuning trick when using SSRS reports (or any other client tool where you can edit the MDX). When you create the MDX query using the designer, it will append some cell properties at the end of the query. Basically it’s just metadata about the cells of the result […]
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Reblog: Creating a Semi-additive Measure over a Parent-child Hierarchy
Originally this blog post would be titled “Disabling aggregations over a parent-child hierarchy”, but I thought it could create confusion with the Aggregation Design concept in Analysis Services (SSAS), which is something completely different. What I want to describe in this blog post is a method forcing a parent-child hierarchy in SSAS to show the parent’s own […]