http://www.sqlmag.com/authors/author/author/5777782/rss/5777782en-USFri, 25 May 2012 08:40:19 GMTFri, 25 May 2012 08:40:19 GMThttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/data-access/january-2004-mdx-puzzle-solutionMeasure a store’s performance by comparing it to other stores in the database.]]>Tim RameyWed, 21 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/data-access/january-2004-mdx-puzzle-solutionhttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/performance/the-art-of-cube-designBecause forecasting depends on the needs of your business, creating a forecasting cube often requires some artistic finesse. Here are some techniques you can use to solve some common cube-design problems.]]>Tim RameyTue, 20 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/performance/the-art-of-cube-designhttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/quering/analysis-services-security-and-httpIf you’ve ever tried to connect users to Analysis Services over HTTP, you know you can’t use the default security protocol. Fortunately, Analysis Services lets you choose from three security options.]]>Tim RameyTue, 23 Dec 2003 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/quering/analysis-services-security-and-httphttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/database-development/november-2003-mdx-puzzle-solution
By Russ Whitney
Discover the solution to the previous MDX puzzle.]]>Russ WhitneyTue, 23 Dec 2003 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/database-development/november-2003-mdx-puzzle-solutionhttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/database-development/january-2004-mdx-puzzle
By Russ Whitney
Challenge yourself with this month’s puzzle.]]>Russ WhitneyTue, 23 Dec 2003 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/database-development/january-2004-mdx-puzzlehttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/activex-data-objects-multidimensional-ado-md/a-deeper-look-at-drillthrough
By Russ Whitney
Microsoft provides an example of how to create drillthrough support for Excel’s PivotTable components, but the example can be hard to follow. Here’s an explanation to help you use the example better.]]>Russ WhitneyTue, 21 Oct 2003 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/activex-data-objects-multidimensional-ado-md/a-deeper-look-at-drillthroughhttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/quering/october-2003-mdx-puzzle-solution
By Russ Whitney
Learn how to narrow a list to show only the items that are relevant in a given situation.]]>Russ WhitneyTue, 21 Oct 2003 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/quering/october-2003-mdx-puzzle-solutionhttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/quering/november-2003-mdx-puzzle
By Russ Whitney
Learn a way to put a number into context to determine its relevance.]]>Russ WhitneyTue, 21 Oct 2003 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/quering/november-2003-mdx-puzzlehttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/quering/dimension-writeback
By Russ Whitney
Dimension writeback is an essential function of budgeting and planning applications. You can create your own cube to learn how dimension writeback works in SQL Server 2000 Enterprise and Developer editions.]]>Russ WhitneyThu, 18 Sep 2003 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/quering/dimension-writebackhttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/monitoring-and-analysis/september-2003-mdx-puzzle-solution
By Russ Whitney
Discover a query that returns the top 10 non-beer products that were purchased with beer in the FoodMart 2000 Sales cube.]]>Russ WhitneyThu, 18 Sep 2003 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/monitoring-and-analysis/september-2003-mdx-puzzle-solutionhttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/quering/october-2003-mdx-puzzle
By Russ Whitney
Try your hand at writing a query that returns all the FoodMart 2000 Sales cube customers whose total Store Sales equal at least 5 percent of the sales to the customer who has the highest total Store Sales.]]>Russ WhitneyThu, 18 Sep 2003 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/quering/october-2003-mdx-puzzlehttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/quering/all-about-nothing
By Russ Whitney
OLAP cubes are notorious for having lots of empty (or null) cells. Including these empty cells in your result sets can bog down your analysis applications. But you can use these tricks to eliminate empties.]]>Russ WhitneyTue, 19 Aug 2003 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/quering/all-about-nothinghttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/quering/august-2003-mdx-puzzle-solution
By Russ Whitney
Here’s a query that uses the TOPCOUNT() function to rank customers who aren’t single and female.]]>Russ WhitneyTue, 19 Aug 2003 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/quering/august-2003-mdx-puzzle-solutionhttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/quering/september-2003-mdx-puzzle
By Russ Whitney
Use the FoodMart 2000 Sales cube to find which 10 non-beer products customers purchased most frequently in the same transaction with beer products.]]>Russ WhitneyTue, 19 Aug 2003 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/quering/september-2003-mdx-puzzlehttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/data-access/member-properties-boot-camp
By Russ Whitney
Member properties let you store additional information about dimension members, but they can do much more. Are you getting all you can from your member properties? Here are 10 ways to pump up member-property effectiveness.]]>Russ WhitneyThu, 24 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/data-access/member-properties-boot-camphttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/quering/july-2003-mdx-puzzle-solution
By Russ Whitney
Learn how to create two calculated members that solve July’s puzzle.]]>Russ WhitneyThu, 24 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/quering/july-2003-mdx-puzzle-solutionhttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/quering/august-2003-mdx-puzzle
By Russ Whitney
Can you find the top 10 single female customers without listing the other three types of customer--single male, married male, and married female?]]>Russ WhitneyThu, 24 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/quering/august-2003-mdx-puzzlehttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/monitoring-and-analysis/analyzing-money
By Russ Whitney
Working with any OLAP solution can help you better understand the technology, but using data that has personal meaning can help you learn even more about OLAP. Here’s a practice solution that uses data you’ll care about--your personal finances.]]>Russ WhitneyTue, 17 Jun 2003 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/monitoring-and-analysis/analyzing-moneyhttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/monitoring-and-analysis/money-macro
By Russ Whitney
This VBA macro steps through Excel and reformats the data in a way that makes it easy to import into Access so that you can use it to build a cube.]]>Russ WhitneyTue, 17 Jun 2003 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/monitoring-and-analysis/money-macrohttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/quering/july-2003-mdx-puzzle
By Russ Whitney
Challenge yourself to create an MDX query that finds the most recent nonzero sales amount for each Los Angeles customer for each quarter of 1997.]]>Russ WhitneyTue, 17 Jun 2003 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/quering/july-2003-mdx-puzzle