Mdx Query performance problem

Question

Hi
Is there any way to control the performance of Mdx expressions that use the Filter function? The following Mdx statement is an example of a query we are generating to return filtered characteristic values for users to make selections for variables.
Note: It is intentional that the column axis is not populated as we are interested only in the returned characteristic values.
SELECT {} N COLUMNS,
Order(
     Filter(
          {[ZPLANTYPE].[All].Children},
          (([ZPLANTYPE].CurrentMember.Name >= 'a' AND [ZPLANTYPE].CurrentMember.Name < 'b') OR
          ([ZPLANTYPE].CurrentMember.Name >= 'A' AND [ZPLANTYPE].CurrentMember.Name < 'B'))
     [ZPLANTYPE].CurrentMember.Name, BASC
) ON ROWS FROM [$IC_FLT]
In a real example with 162,000 charateristics this query is taking up to 5 minutes to run - clearly unacceptable as part of a user interface. It appears that behind the scenes a sequential read of the underlying dimesnion table is being carried out.
It is difficult to create a more sophisticated query due to the lack of string handling logic in the raw Mdx language.

Answer 1

Hi,
I have been through the queries, and understand that the "_MSCM1" is being aggregated across Product and Paid Amount from the query extract below:
member [Accounts].[_MSCM1] as 'AGGREGATE({[_Product2]}, [Accounts].[Paid Amount])'
If I am getting it right, there is an aggregation rule missing for [Paid Amount] (I think that's the reason, the query is to aggregate _MSCM1 by "Paid Amount" ie just like any other dimension).
Could you please check this once and this is why I think BI is generating two queries? I am sorry, if I got this wrong.
Hope this helps.
Thank you,
Dhar