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XMLA script to deploy MDX Calculations

At a current project I needed to create a deploy script for the MDX calculations of a cube.

SQL Server Management Studio makes it very easy for you to create XMLA-scripts to create or alter cubes, dimensions, etc… But it’s not possible to use Management Studio to create an alter-script that only contains the MDX calculations. Because I needed to resolve a bug in the calculations but the rest of the cube was not ready to be deployed to production yet, I had to create an alter script just for the MDX.

Of course I could have started learning the XMLA-syntax to write a script for this, but I decided to go for the easy way: the BIDSHelper has an option to deploy the MDX to a cube without having to deploy the entire cube.

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Tags: mdx, amo, xmla

 

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