Talk:Multidimensional Expressions

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This page could really use some fleshing out and updating, perhaps even code samples. 131.107.0.89 16:24, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/sql/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnsql90/html/IMDXSMSS05.asp
  • which has now been moved to http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345116.aspx Renny Barrett 16:24, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Why is there no reference to other multidimensional languages? MDX is a Microsoft solution, there are others including JOLAP a Java open standard.

First, MDX is not Microsoft solution although it was first proposed by Microsoft. But even the first implementation wasn't done by Microsoft. And XMLA council owns the standard. Second, JOLAP is not multidimensional language. It is set of APIs. Certainly JOLAP deserves its own page, but this entry is about MDX language. Wikiolap 23:17, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DDL vs. DML

MDX is compared with SQL; SQL has a declarative part (DDL, e.g. CREATE TABLE), a manipulative part (DML, e.g. SELECT *) and an operations / management piece (e.g. GRANT...). I wasn't clear after reading this whether MDX is a declarative standard, a manipulative standard, a management standard, or all 3.

MW

MDX is mostly DML (i.e. SELECT and UPDATE), but it has some DDL as well. The article focuses on the DML part mostly. Wikiolap 21:00, 6 November 2006 (UTC)