Question

I’m after an MDX query which will change the results every time it is run, regardless of what data is in the cube.

So I’m starting with

WITH 
   MEMBER [Measures].[MyMeasure2] AS
   [Measures].[MyMeasure] * 1.0 // replace 1.0 with??
SELECT
    NON EMPTY(...

something like RANDOM() would be nice, but that doesn’t seem to exist in SSAS. Other alternatives would be things like the current second? That would work if I knew how to retrieve it.

Any other ideas are welcome. The goal is to have a mutating result set so I can test code which models changes over time.

Answer 1

On my SSAS 2008 R2 instance I am able to do this:

WITH 
MEMBER [Measures].[MyMeasure2] AS
    [Measures].[MyMeasure] * RND()
SELECT
    NON EMPTY(...