Sales Dim Date Dim Customers Dim Products Dim Categories Dim Geography The data warehouse is a simple and standard one, after all we will build everything in an hour…

ClassPercentage A (few products)70% B (some products)20% C (many products)10% GRAND TOTAL100%

SUM( Amount) GROUP BY Product INTO #temp UPDATE #temp SET Percentage = RunningTotal on Product Amount / SUM( Amount ) UPDATE product SET Class = A/B/C (from #temp) SQL

Process Sales cube MDX query on Sales cube to extract ABC Class UPDATE product SET Class = A/B/C from MDX query Requires ETL or Linked Server Process Product Dimension Update Sales aggregations (ABC flexible attribute) SQL OLAP OLAP OLAP

DBI-B225: Microsoft “Data Explorer” for Excel DBI-B315: Querying in DAX