Chapter 2

OLE DB for OLAP Concepts

This chapter provides a broad overview of OLE DB for OLAP concepts and includes the following topics:

• Enumerating and initializing OLE DB for OLAP data source objects
  
  
• Understanding and using multidimensional schemas
  
  
• MDX and datasets
  
  
• Delimited identifiers
  
  
• Datasets
  
  
• Flattening a dataset to produce a rowset
  
  
• Range rowsets
  
  
• Updating cell data