MDX Children Function

The MDX Children function will return the associate Child member that belongs to the specified member. For instance, If you are an Amazon developer and If one of your customer is looking for iPod in Amazon.com. As a developer it is your duty to display all the Apple products at the bottom of the page so that user can browse other products and sometimes he may buy? In these situations you can use the Children function by writing something like [Product].[Apple].[iPod].Parent.Children. In this article we will show you, How to write Children function with examples.

MDX Children Function Syntax

The basic syntax of the Children Function in Multidimensional Expression is as shown below:

1	Member_Expression.CHILDREN

Member_Expression: Any Multidimensional Expression that returns valid Member.

MDX Children Function Example

In this example we are going to find the [Reseller Sales amount] of the all the states present in the France.

MDX CODE

SELECT

[Measures].[Reseller Sales Amount] ON COLUMNS,

[Geography].[Geography].[Country].[France].CHILDREN ON ROWS

FROM [Adventure Works];

OUTPUT

From the above screenshot you can observe that, It is displaying all the states present in France.

MDX Children Function Example 2

In this example we are going to find the [Reseller Sales amount] of the all the countries present in the Geography attribute.