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February 2009

Greetings, fellow data analysts!

There are certain words in a foreign language that are just difficult to translate. The German word "schadenfreude," for example, simply has no punchy English equivalent. Most people, therefore, prefer to use the original term instead of paraphrasing it into the "pleasure taken from observing the misery of others".

In an artificial language such as MDX - the standard query language for OLAP databases - that can be a bit more challenging. Defining a measure like production costs (for the sake of simplicity, the sum of labor and material costs) is relatively easy in English. In MDX, however, you have to formulate that in a very roundabout expression. The reason is that MDX doesn't understand hierarchies in measures.

That's where DeltaMaster comes to the rescue! In this case, you can still create the desired hierarchies with just a few clicks of a mouse. We'll show you how in this edition of clicks!.

Best regards,

Your Bissantz & Company team

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