MDX Walkthrough

Multidimensional Expressions which are usually abbreviated to MDX are also sometimes abbreviated by frustrated developers as @#%*^$!. For those of us who have been using T-SQL for a long time MDX can be an unpleasant new language to pick up. For those of us who do not work with MDX all the time, it's a constant cycle of readjusting, relearning some old tricks and then setting it aside again. I have found that many web postings are either too simplistic to help the new MDX user, too complicated or go too quickly from start to end to be easily absorbed. When I do have my breakthroughs, I have learned to take extensive notes to remind myself of what was going on so that when I pick MDX back up, I have my own set of notes.