Question

I am creating a named set in SSMS with this code:

WITH SET [American WWII Figures] AS
'{[American GI], [US Army Pilot]}'

and i get the respons:

Executing the query ...
Parser: The end of the input was reached.

Execution complete

Is that query succefully executed?

When i then try to use the named set with:

SELECT {[American WWII Figures]} ON COLUMNS,
        [Year].Members ON ROWS
FROM    [Max Min Manufacturing DM]  
WHERE [Measures].[Total Products]

i get:

Executing the query ...
Query (1, 9) The dimension '[American WWII Figures]' was not found in the cube
when the string, [American WWII Figures], was parsed.

Execution complete

Since it doesn´t appear to exist i guess something is wrong when i create the set. What could be the error?

Answer 1

Read about different ways to make named sets in mdx. Either with the “CREATE SET..” or like me: WITH SET.

I learned that the difference are the scope it exists. When you use the WITH-statement the named set only exists in the query. I executed the queries at different times but when i ran them together everything worked fine!