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{color:#000000}For Pentaho Anaysis data source, there are 3 types of OLAP data source types \[Pentaho Analysis, Pentaho Analysis De-normalized, and Pentaho Analysis (Legacy)\].

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  The difference between them are how the column names are created from the MDX statement and how the data is organized.{color}

{color:#000000}{*}Based on the following MDX query using SteelWheels:*{color}

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select NON EMPTY Crossjoin({

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[Measures

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].

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[Quantity

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]}, Union({

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[Markets

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].

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[All Markets

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]}, 

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[Markets

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].

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[All Markets

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].Children)) ON COLUMNS,

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  NON EMPTY Hierarchize(Union({

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[Product

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].

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[All Products

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]}, 

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[Product

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].

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[All Products

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].Children)) ON ROWS

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from [SteelWheelsSales]

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{*}Product{1}, *

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{color:#000000}For the {color}{color:#000000}{*}Pentaho Analysis{*}{color}{color:#000000} datasource aka {color}{color:#000000}{*}Banded MDX{*}{color}{color:#000000}.  The columns return like this:{color}{color:#000000}* *{color}
{color:#000000}*\[Product\].\[All\], *{color}
{color:#000000}*\[Product\].\[Line\], *{color}
{color:#000000}*\[Measure\].\[Quantity\]/\[Markets\].\[All Markets\],*{color}
{color:#000000}*\[Measure\].\[Quantity\]/\[Markets\].\[All Markets\].\[APAC\], *{color}
{color:#000000}*\[Measure\].\[Quantity\]/\[Markets\].\[All Markets\].\[EMEA\], *{color}
{color:#000000}*\[Measure\].\[Quantity\]/\[Markets\].\[All Markets\].\[Japan\], *{color}
{color:#000000}*\[Measure\].\[Quantity\]/\[Markets\].\[All Markets\].\[NA\].*{color}
{color:#000000}For the {color}{color:#000000}{*}Pentaho Analysis  (De-Normalize) *{color}{color:#000000}datasource aka {color}{color:#000000}{*}Denormalized MDX{*}{color}{color:#000000}.  The columns return like this where it de-normalizes the crosstab data:{color}{color:#000000}* *{color}
{color:#000000}*\[Product\].\[All\],  *{color}
{color:#000000}*\[Product\].\[Line\], *{color}
{color:#000000}*\[Measures\].\[MeasuresLevel\], *{color}
{color:#000000}*\[Markets\].\[All\],*{color}
{color:#000000}*\[Markets\].\[Territory\], *{color}
{color:#000000}{*}Measure{*}{color}
{color:#000000}For the {color}{color:#000000}{*}Pentaho Analysis (legacy)*{color}{color:#000000} datasource aka {color}{color:#000000}{*}Legacy Banded MDX{*}{color}{color:#000000}, this is the old way the columns returned prior to Pentaho Report Designer 3.5 and created so that reports migrated easily to 3.5  The columns return like this:  {color}
{color:#000000}{*}Product, *{color}
{color:#000000}{*}Product{*}{color}{1}{color:#000000}, {color}
{color:#000000}{*}Quantity/APAC/Markets, *{color}
{color:#000000}{*}Quantity/All Markets/Markets, *{color}
{color:#000000}{*}Quantity/EMEA/Markets, *{color}
{color:#000000}{*}Quantity/Japan/Markets, *{color}