Making Selections and Working with Subsets of Data

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In the OLAP DML, when you want to calculate against a subset of data, you do not create a new variable that is the data subset. Instead, you specify the desired subset in one of the following ways:

• Specify what dimension values (and, therefore, what variable values) are currently accessible or "in status" to all OLAP DML statements and expressions. For more information, see "Working with Dimension Status".

• Within an expression, specify a single value or a subset of values. For more information, see "Limiting Dimension Values Directly in an Expression".