SSAS and use of MDX queries

Question

Use and Purpose of MDX queries. I have started creating cubes and SSAS project but haven't used whole lot of MDX queries. Is MDX queries used for querying cubes??? Have tried but not successful Let me know.

Answer 1

You use MDX to query cubes like you use SQL SELECT statements to query relational databases.

However, there are a lot of reporting tools that generate the MDX queries so that you do not have to write them manually.