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DM Direct Newsletter, September 7, 2007, By Lawrence Sackett

I confess. I'm an MDX junkie. Not only that, but I've owned a BI consulting firm for the past nine years with MDX as a core competency. I also have to confess that I'm not much of a programmer. I know enough about T-SQL to be dangerous and enough about VB.Net to be sure that I'd be living on the street if I had to work as a programmer. But I love MDX for what it's been able to do for our clients.

MDX stands for multidimensional expressions. MDX is a query language for OLAP databases, much like SQL is a query language for relational databases. It's also a powerful calculation language. One of our clients referred to it as "SQL on steroids."

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