MDX Training Part 2

In MDX training Part2 video training course advanced concepts of MDX queries are discussed

The basic concepts are already discussed in MDX training  course  Part 1

Multidimensional eXpressions are used to query and get the data from Multi Dimension OLAP cube.

These video tutorials have used SSAS Cubes to write MDX Queries

This advance online MDX training course is a part of SSAS Training (SQL Server Analysis Services) . The SSAS  comes under MSBI Training (Microsoft Business Intelligence) This course is very important to get familiar with all concept of MDX and expert knowledge of the same.

Following are the course contents

Playing with Hierarchies

•Descendants Function

•Ascendants Functions

•Parent

•Ancestor

•Siblings FirstSibling LastSibling

•Firstchild Lastchld 

•item

•PrevMember NextMember

•Lag Lead

•Hierarchize Function

•CurrentMember

•Ordinal

•More on Order Function

•Rank Function

More functions

•    iif Function

•    Switch function

•    Crossjoin Union Except Intersect

•    DrilldownMember and DrilldownLevel

    DrilldownLevelTop  and DrilldownLevelBottom

•   DrilldownMemberTop 

•   DrilldownMemberBottom

•   Generate Function

Working with Time

•How to add Time Intelligence to a Dimesion

YTD QTD MTD WTD

PeriodsToDate

OpeningPeriod

•ClosingPeriod

•Parallelperiod

•LastPeriods

Business Scenarios

•Percent Sales Contribution of every Product to the business

•Percent Sales Contribution of every Product to its Subcategory and then Percent Sales Contribution of every Subcategory to its Category

•Dividing Products into sections.For Example if the sale of the product has above 20% of contribution to the business then Product belongs to Class A

•If the contribution of the product is between 10 to 20 % then class B else class C

•To find monthly sales and for every month what is the average per day sales

•For every country what are the top 5 best selling products

•Sales of first 6 months of a given year

•Comparing current year sales with previous year sales

•Comparing sales of first 6 months of the current year with the previous year sales

•Comparing current month sales with the average of last three months sales

•You need to find out opening stock at the start of the month or Closing Stock at the end of the month for an inventory

•Providing Ranking to the Products based on Sales

•Summary Sales details of all the countries except one country . Eg USA , in this you want to see state wise sales as well

After learning this online training course participant will be able to write complex MDX expressions and feel confident in writing the commands