An Introduction to

MDX
In Hyperion Essbase
By Amit Sharma
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Amit Sharma
Hyperion Trainer
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 MDX Introduction
Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) lets you query
multidimensional objects, such as cubes, and return
multidimensional cell sets that contain the cube's data.

In MDX, the SELECT statement specifies a result set that contains a subset
of multidimensional data that has been returned from a cube. To specify a
result set, an MDX query must contain the following information:

The number of axes or sets of hierarchies. You can specify up to 64(0-63)

axes in an MDX query.
The members from each dimension to include on each axis of the MDX
query.
The name of the cube that sets the context of the MDX query.
The members from a slicer axis on which data is sliced for members from
the query axes. For more information about slicer and query axes.

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ntroduction to Sets and Tuples

A tuple is a way to refer to a member or a member combination from any

number of dimensions.
For example, in the Sample Basic database, Jan is a tuple, and so is (Jan,
Sales), and so is ([Jan],[Sales],[Cola],[Utah],[Actual]).

et is an ordered collection of one or more tuples that have the same dimensional

In MDX Queries we specify AXIS to specify Data Access

Layout
ON COLUMNS can be used in place of AXIS(0)
ON ROWS may replace AXIS(1)
ON PAGES may replace AXIS(2)
ON CHAPTERS may replace AXIS(3)
ON SECTIONS may replace AXIS(4)

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Examples

SELECT SELECT
{Jan} {([100-10], [Actual])}
ON COLUMNS ON COLUMNS
FROM Sample.Basic FROM Sample.Basic

SELECT SELECT
{[100-10],[100-20]} {([100-10],[East]), ([100-20],[East])}
ON COLUMNS, ON COLUMNS,
{[Qtr1],[Qtr2],[Qtr3],[Qtr4]} {
ON ROWS ([Qtr1],[Profit]), ([Qtr2],[Profit]),
FROM Sample.Basic ([Qtr3],[Profit]), ([Qtr4],[Profit])
}
ON ROWS
FROM Sample.Basic

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Specify Member Range

SELECT SELECT
MemberRange([Qtr1],[Qtr4]) [Qtr1]:[Qtr4]ON COLUMNS
ON COLUMNS FROM Sample.Basic
FROM Sample.Basic

Attribute Dimension

SELECT {[Year].Children} ON COLUMNS,

Attribute ([Ounces_12]) ON ROWS FROM
Sample.Basic

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Performing Set Operations

SELECT {[Measures].[Sales], [Measures].[Profit]} ON

COLUMNS, Except( [Market].Levels(0).Members, UDA
(Market, "Major Market") )
ON ROWS
WHERE {([Year].[Qtr1], [Scenario].[Actual])

SELECT
CrossJoin ({[100-10]}, {[East],[West],[South],[Central]})
ON COLUMNS,
CrossJoin (
{[Sales],[COGS],[Margin %],[Profit %]}, {[Qtr1]}
)
ON ROWS
FROM Sample.Basic

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Level/Generation Generation
SELECT [Year].
SELECT [Qtr1].Generation.Members
Members(Market.levels(0))ON ON COLUMNS,
COLUMNS [Product].Generations(2).Mem
FROM Sample.Basic bers ON ROWS FROM
Sample.Basic

Filtering Using Slice

SELECT
CrossJoin ({[100-10]}, {[East],[West],[South],[Central]})
ON COLUMNS,
CrossJoin (
{[Sales],[COGS],[Margin %],[Profit %]}, {[Qtr1]}
)
ON ROWS
FROM Sample.Basic
WHERE (Budget)

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Filtering Data
SELECT { Profit } ON COLUMNS,
Filter( [Product].levels(0).members, Profit < 0) ON ROWS
FROM Sample.Basic
Aggregation Queries

WITH MEMBER [Measures].[Max Qtr2 WITH

Sales] SET [Best5Prods] AS
AS ' 'Topcount (
Max ( [Product].members,
{[Year].[Qtr2]}, 5,
[Measures].[Sales] ([Measures].[Sales], [Scenario].
)' [Actual],
SELECT [Year].[Dec])
{[Measures].[Max Qtr2 Sales]} )'
ON COLUMNS, SELECT [Best5Prods] ON AXIS(0),
{[Product].children} {[Year].[Dec]} ON AXIS(1)
ON ROWS FROM Sample.Basic
FROM Sample.Basic

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Member Functions

SELECT
Filter([Market].Members, SELECT {Parent
IsChild([Market].CurrentMember, ([100-10])} ON
[East]) COLUMNS FROM
) sample.basic
ON COLUMNS
FROM Sample.Basic
Conditional Access "IFF"

WITH MEMBER [Scenario].[Revised Budget] AS

'IIF ( [Product].CurrentMember.Caffeinated, Budget * 1.1, Budget )'
SELECT {[Scenario].[Budget], [Scenario].[Revised Budget]} ON
COLUMNS, [Product].Levels(0).Members ON ROWS FROM Sample.Basic
WHERE ([Measures].[Sales], [Year].[Qtr3])

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 Questions

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