例如：
<Schema>
  <Cube name="Sales">
    <Table name="sales_fact_1997"/>
    <Dimension name="Gender" foreignKey="customer_id">
      <Hierarchy hasAll="true" allMemberName="All Genders" primaryKey="customer_id">
        <Table name="customer"/>
        <Level name="Gender" column="gender" uniqueMembers="true"/>
      </Hierarchy>
    </Dimension>
    <Dimension name="Time" foreignKey="time_id">
      <Hierarchy hasAll="false" primaryKey="time_id">
        <Table name="time_by_day"/>
        <Level name="Year" column="the_year" type="Numeric" uniqueMembers="true"/>
        <Level name="Quarter" column="quarter" uniqueMembers="false"/>
        <Level name="Month" column="month_of_year" type="Numeric" uniqueMembers="false"/>
      </Hierarchy>
    </Dimension>
    <Measure name="Unit Sales" column="unit_sales" aggregator="sum" formatString="#,###"/>
    <Measure name="Store Sales" column="store_sales" aggregator="sum" formatString="#,###.##"/>
    <CalculatedMember name="Profit" dimension="Measures" formula="[Measures].[Store Sales]-[Measures].[Store Cost]">
      <CalculatedMemberProperty name="FORMAT_STRING" value="$#,##0.00"/>
    </CalculatedMember>
  </Cube>
</Schema> 

 

MDX查询为：


SELECT {[Measures].[Unit Sales], [Measures].[Store Sales]} ON COLUMNS,
  {[Time].[1997].[Q1].descendants} ON ROWS
FROM [Sales]



WHERE [Gender].[F] 



[Time]
[Measures].[Unit Sales]
[Measures].[Store Sales]
[1997].[Q1]
0
0
[1997].[Q1].[Jan]
0
0
[1997].[Q1].[Feb]
0
0
[1997].[Q1].[Mar]
0
0


A member is a point within a dimension determined by a particular set of attribute values. The gender hierarchy has the two members 'M' and 'F'. 'San Francisco', 'California' and 'USA' are all members of the store hierarchy. 
A hierarchy is a set of members organized into a structure for convenient analysis. For example, the store hierarchy consists of the store name, city, state, and nation. The hierarchy allows you form intermediate sub-totals: the sub-total for a state is the sum of the sub-totals of all of the cities in that state, each of which is the sum of the sub-totals of the stores in that city. 
A level is a collection of members which have the same distance from the root of the hierarchy. 
A dimension is a collection of hierarchies which discriminate on the same fact table attribute (say, the day that a sale occurred).