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re: Score another point for XMLA and MDX

> Where can we find the specifications of the ODBO protocol ?http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms717005(VS.85).aspx

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re: Score another point for XMLA and MDX

Thanks for your answer. I can understand your point of view.So it seems the best alternative for an OLAP server is to offer both protocols ODBO and XMLA if we want to avoid deploying client side...

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re: Score another point for XMLA and MDX

I'm not being clear - I know Excel knows about how to create a calculated member, but it doesn't (and probably never will) know how to define a calculated member. Could I take the same cube definition...

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re: Score another point for XMLA and MDX

And Chris - you are wrong here:> but Excel doesn't know and doesn't care about vast areas of MDX functionality - for example the MDX you use when you're writing calculated members.Excel knows and...

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George - let's be clear - the main thing in XMLA is MDX support. Everything else - schema rowsets etc - is close to trivial. In this respect OLEDB for OLAP and XMLA are exactly the same.I don't think...

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re: Score another point for XMLA and MDX

I mean XMLA in the widest sense, which includes MDX. Excel is certainly the client tool that 'everyone' or at least the vast majority of people want to use, but Excel doesn't know and doesn't care...

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re: Score another point for XMLA and MDX

The major problem with the MDX/XMLA connectivity with Excel is that Excel does not support XMLA but requires an ODBO link, hence the requirement to buy a ODBO/XMLA "driver" and plug-it as a a data...

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re: Score another point for XMLA and MDX

Chris, you seem to contradict yourself. You wrote in the comments:"that only means that everyone's XMLA is compatible where it matters for Excel, and that's not all XMLA"But in the blog that I linked...

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re: Score another point for XMLA and MDX

I think you're absolutely right, it's compatibility with Excel pivot tables that's driving this. But that only means that everyone's XMLA is compatible where it matters for Excel, and that's not all...

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