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MDX DESCENDANTS

August 2nd, 2011 Arun Mallick 24 comments

Although we have .Members and .Children for navigating through members of a particular dimension, but as a BI user, we need more flexibility in traversing through each level of the hierarchy. And For this, MDX has one more amazing function called DESCENDANTS, which not only provides listing of current level members but also has functionality to display Parent and Grand-Child members till the leaf level.

We will first discover the pattern of hierarchical data and the functionality of DESCENDANTS function over it.

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