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Default HOWTO: connect to OLAP cube, display results and drill using ASP.NET? - 02-29-2004 , 04:54 PM






Hello,

I'd like to develop an application with the following functionality:
- allow users to connect to OLAP cube and run custom MDX queries
against it
- allow drilling on front-end

For example:
original query returns results of annual sales figures for
some products. Data is represented in the table on web page.

1997 1998
--------------------
Milk 700 750
Bread 690 680
Rice 900 950

The column headers are hyperlinks. Clicking on particular year
will return data for each quarter of that year.

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
----------------------------------
Milk 150 150 200 200
Bread 150 150 200 190
Rice 200 200 200 300


Can this be archived? How?
Especially how to construct drilling MDX queries on the fly?

Any suggestions and/or references to resources are welcomed.

Thanks for your help!

Dmitri

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Default Re: HOWTO: connect to OLAP cube, display results and drill using ASP.NET? - 04-01-2004 , 05:41 AM






Hi Dimitri,

You may also want to look at an application called ProClarity. It is a
very nifty GUI that writes MDX on the fly and delivers intuitive
'reporting' based on cubes. www.proclarity.com

CIAO ;-D


"Joerg Narr" <n_o_spa_mjoerg_narr (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

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You should look into Crystal Analysis. If you like that program's
features, you can purchase Crystal Enterprise to get similar web-based
functionality. Expect to pay slightly north of 20,000 USD for the
package.

Hi Dmitri,

1. I would recommend reading some books or online-resources on MDX. An
understandable book is "Fast track to MDX". A neat online resource is
http://www.databasejournal.com/article.php/1459531.
2. Besides the fact that Crystal Analysis won't allow you to "develop" your
application but "is" an application, I haven't seen it on the common road
map of Business Objects for the merger with Crystal Decisions yet.

Kind Regards,

Joerg

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