Managing SSAS Named Sets with Master Data Services Collections
Master Data Services Collections are probably not the first feature that come to mind when you think of the MDS product. The hierarchies and member grids tend to be the core functionality, but as this post will hopefully show, MDS Collections are useful also.
Collections are essentially managed lists of members that can come from multiple different MDS explicit hierarchies, or also from another collection. The idea is that this "subset of members" can be maintained in MDS by a business user and then fed to external applications for reporting or other purposes.
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