Hi there,
There is currently some technology on the market that was developed expressly to address this problem. See:
http://www.delostechnology.com
Good luck
This prevents the quantities from totaling and brings the last day’s/week’s, etc number into the total. This needs to go in the cube’s time dimension under Advanced Properties, Custom Rollup Formula, on each level except the lowest one – e.g.
Year [Time].currentmember.Lastchild
Quarter...
I have have similar problems before and it turned out to be the access database "msmdrep.mdb" that had become corrupt. It may be a place to start. It is in \Program Files\Microsoft Analysis Services\Bin. This file holds the info about the cube.
Good luck
I have found this forum very helpful, as well as
http://sqlmag.com - do a search on OLAP - it has some good info. Also, the MS Analysis Manager Tutorial is a good way to get started.
There are not many sites in MDX that are actually active at the moment but these should get you on your way...
I found the solution. I am using a financial calendar and i was trying to utilize the dimension name, instead of the actual table name (dim name is "Financial Calendar". I used the following:
"dbo"."Calendar"."FinancialYear" = ('2000/2001') or...
I would like to include meta data e.g. source tables, exact calculation, etc on a cell level, so that if a user is unsure of a figure, he/she can view the meta data. I am using SQL Server 2000, with Excel and Data Analyzer on the front. Has anyone implemented Meta Data within OLAP services or...
This will give you averages over time:
([Time].currentmember,[Measures].[Units Shipped])/count (descendants([Time].currentmember, [Month]))
or, this pretty much does the same thing:
[Measures].[Units Ordered]/count(descendants([Time].currentmember, [Month]))
Good luck
Create a Calculated Measure as follows:
[Unit Sales]/SUM({[Product].Parent}, [Unit Sales])
then in advanced properties, set your format string to #.00%
(It was the curley brackets that got me)
You may find that you come out to 99% because of the rounding and you may get something strange at...
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