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Month: September 2009

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Aggregating Many-to-Many Relationships

Relax…this blog is all about Analysis Services and not about polygamy or something worse. SSAS 2005 went beyond the "classic" OLAP model by introducing flexible dimension-to-measure group relationships, including many-to-many, referenced, fact relationships. M2M relationships can solve some nagging business problems. For example, in a recent project where we had to implement a financial cube, there was a requirement that a G-L account can belong…

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Passing Multivalued Parameters in SQL Server 2008

One year after submitting this small article, SQL Server Magazine has finally published it. This article demonstrates how you can use table-value parameters (TVPs), a new feature in SQL Server 2008, to let you pass multivalued parameters from a report to a stored procedure. The code can be downloaded from the SQL Server Magazine site or from here.

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