{"id":16078,"date":"2015-05-28T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devwww.3cloudsolutions.com\/post\/multidimensional-expressions-a-simple-explanation-2\/"},"modified":"2024-04-17T08:29:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T15:29:07","slug":"multidimensional-expressions-a-simple-explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/resources\/multidimensional-expressions-a-simple-explanation\/","title":{"rendered":"Multidimensional Expressions: A Simple Explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"Multidimensional_Expressions.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Multidimensional_Expressions.jpg\" alt=\"Multidimensional_Expressions.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Multidimensional Expressions\u00a0(MDX) is one of the more challenging languages in the BI world (M in PowerQuery is probably the next in line). It\u2019s probably because our brains are trained to think relational and with MDX you have to think \u201clayers\u201d. I picked up DAX pretty easily, but kept searching for a way to understand MDX.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve Googled, asked brilliant MDX coders, watched YouTube videos, etc., but I just couldn\u2019t find a simple explanation. I have to admit, reading technical jargon is rough on my brain. Then I found this <a href=\"http:\/\/msbiacademy.com\/?p=1671\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">video<\/a> and voila! Finally, someone who could explain MDX to me in English! Watching this video makes you feel like someone is sitting right next to you to explain MDX.<\/p>\n<p>In this video, Rob explains the structure of an MDX query in relation to a SQL query, which is very helpful when trying to build your MDX query. He then goes on to explain what is different about MDX syntax (brackets, members, tuples) and how it is used. So tuple schnuple\u2026watch this and you\u2019ll be writing MDX in no time!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1nslGc-rnH4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Looking for more resources? Check out our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blue-granite.com\/resources\">knowledge center<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) is very challenging to pick up on. The video in this blog post explains MDX and how it\u2019s used very well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":14990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[395],"tags":[319,347],"class_list":["post-16078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-data-science-ai","tag-machine-learning-ai","tag-ssas","topics-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}