On: The Rise and Fall of the OLAP Cube (2020)

[papandada]

I keep feeling like this is room for a better language than MDX... And DAX isn't it either.

[intrasight → papandada]

MDX is brilliant but challenging - especially if you don't work with it on a regular basis.

[papandada → intrasight]

That's my experience for sure. I haven't thought all that hard about this but I wish there was a language lessened that wall of incomprehension I face every infrequent time I go back to MDX -- that's what I mean by room for another language.

[intrasight → papandada]

A great deal of effort by very clever people went into MDX. Well one clever individual anyway - Mosha Pasumansky - whom I had the pleasure of once meeting. He moved on to working on BigQuery at Google - so yeah, MDX is dead.