Cube is populated with data divided into time dimension ( period ) which represents a month.
Following query: select non empty {[Measures].[a], [Measures].[b], [Measures].[c]} on columns,
{[Period].[Period].ALLMEMEMBERS} on rows
from MyCube
returns:+--------+----+---+--------+
| Period | a | b | c |
+--------+----+---+--------+
| 2 | 3 | 2 | (null) |
| 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| 5 | 23 | 2 | 2 |
+--------+----+---+--------+
Removing non empty select {[Measures].[a], [Measures].[b], [Measures].[c]} on columns,
{[Period].[Period].ALLMEMEMBERS} on rows
from MyCube
Renders:+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| Period | a | b | c |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| 1 | (null) | (null) | (null) |
| 2 | 3 | 2 | (null) |
| 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| 4 | (null) | (null) | (null) |
| 5 | 23 | 2 | 2 |
| 6 | (null) | (null) | (null) |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
What i would like to get, is all records from period 2 to period 5, first occurance of values in measure "a" denotes start of range, last occurance - end of range.
This works - but i need this to be dynamically calculated during runtime by mdx:
select non empty {[Measures].[a], [Measures].[b], [Measures].[c]} on columns,
{[Period].[Period].&[2] :[Period].[Period].&[5]} on rows
from MyCube
desired output:
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| Period | a | b | c |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| 2 | 3 | 2 | (null) |
| 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| 4 | (null) | (null) | (null) |
| 5 | 23 | 2 | 2 |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
I tried looking for first/last values but just couldn't compose them into the query properly. Anyone has this issue before ? This should be pretty common seeing as I want to get a continuous financial report without skipping months where nothing is going on. Thanks.