MEMBERS Table

This table contains all the members in all the dimensions of the cube:

MEMBER_NAME NATURAL_SORT_RANK
Geography.All.USA 1
Geography.All.USA.Kansas 14
Geography.All Canada 3
Geography.All.USA.NewYork.Buffalo 5
Geography.All.USA.Kansas.Topeka 1
…and other rows

The MEMBER_NAME and PARENT_NAME values are fully qualified, unambiguous names; that is, they will be fully qualified by the path all the way to the dimension name. The NATURAL_SORT_RANK value is the rank of a member when it is sorted in the natural sort order of the dimension. Note that this is the rank among all the children of a member. This makes inserts easier. If a new city is inserted into the list of cities for Germany, then there should be no need to update the natural sort rank of all cities in the world.