Tag: Analysis Services

Using Microsoft olapR to Bring Analysis Services OLAP Data Into R Online Anaytical Processing (OLAP) and the R statistical language are both children of the 1990s. However, for much of the intervening time they inhabited different worlds. OLAP, and its query language MDX, lived in the world of databases and queries while R was the […]

Virtually all major statistical and analytical software packages have provision for obtaining data from a relational data source using SQL queries. Unfortunately, many of the tools that work with SQL do not help when the data source is an Analysis Services database and the query language is MDX or DAX. As mentioned in the previous […]

Christine, a student in Learning Tree’s course SQL Server Analysis Services for Business Intelligence, writes “I just created my first Analysis Services tabular model database, and I am having lots of fun. But now I want to do some more sophisticated statistical analysis using R. I can’t seem to find a way to use DAX […]