| Contents | 6 |
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| Foreword | 10 |
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| Introduction | 13 |
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| Why should you read this book? | 13 |
| What is MDX? | 13 |
| Who should read this book? | 14 |
| Who are we? | 14 |
| Bugs (sorry – readware anomalies) | 16 |
| Acknowledgements | 16 |
| What do we cover? | 17 |
| What we don’t cover | 17 |
| Disclaimer | 18 |
| The ‘d’ word | 19 |
| What’s on the CD-ROM | 19 |
| Chapter 1 Readme.doc – definitions you need to know | 22 |
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| Sample data | 22 |
| Italics | 22 |
| Introduction | 22 |
| Dimensions, measures, members and cells | 23 |
| Cranking up the complexity | 27 |
| Hierarchies and aggregations | 29 |
| Levels | 31 |
| Naming conventions | 32 |
| Tuples and sets | 34 |
| Exploring the differences between tuples and se
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