Dynamic Named Sets in SQL Server Analysis Service 2008
One of improvement in area of Analysis Service 2008 is dynamic named sets feature in MDX (multi dimensional expression). DMX language is used by analysis service client to interact with Analysis Service Engine. There are several scope in named sets, i.e. : query scope, session scope (possibly several query in one session), or cube scope (the named sets is defined inside cube with MDX scripting). In previous version before SQL Server 2008, named sets is static now in SQL Server 2008, you have options whether to define the named set static or dynamic.
Below sub section, I present problems on static named sets as reasons why dynamic named sets comes in handy.
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