Currency Conversion (and More) in Analysis Services
Presenter: Christian Wade, Senior Consultant, EMC Consulting
San Francisco SQL Server User Group
June 11, 2009
Mark Ginnebaugh, User Group Leader
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Agenda
Introduction
Types of Currency Conversion
Many-to-many dimensions
Time dimensions
Semi-additive measures
Measure expressions
MDX query authoring and optimization
MDX scripting
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Introduction
Kern River Field – 81,000 barrels per day
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Types of Currency Conversion
One-to-Many
Many-to-One
Many-to-Many
= [Many-to-One] + [One-to-Many]
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Demo
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Many-to-many dimensions
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Many-to-many dimensions
Base Data
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Many-to-many dimensions
Base Data
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Many-to-many dimensions
Default Aggregation
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Many-to-many dimensions
Forced to be additive: Account B 60%, 40% split
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Many-to-many dimensions
Base Data
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Many-to-many dimensions
Apply conversion
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Many-to-many dimensions
Apply conversion
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Many-to-many dimensions
Doesn’t aggregate on currency at all
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Demo
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Options for applying conversion rate
Build logic into MDX query
Build logic into MDX script
BI Wizard
Measure expressions
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Resources
My blog:
http://blogs.conchango.com/christianwade/
Mosha Pasumansky’s blog:
http://sqlblog.com/blogs/mosha/
Chris Webb’s blog:
http://cwebbbi.spaces.live.com/
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