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Line 1: '''XML for Analysis''' (abbreviated as '''XMLA''') is an industry standard for data access in analytical systems, such as [[OLAP]] and [[~~Data~~data ~~Mining~~mining]]. XMLA is based on other industry standards such as [[XML]], [[SOAP]] and [[HTTP]]. XMLA is maintained by ''XMLA Council'' with [[Microsoft]], [[Hyperion Solutions Corporation\|Hyperion]] and [[SAS Institute\|SAS]] being the official XMLA Council founder members.<ref>{{cite web\|title=What is XMLA?\|url=http://www.xmlforanalysis.com/index.htm}}</ref> ==History== Line 14: * Command - command to be executed. It can be [[Multidimensional Expressions\|MDX]], [[Data Mining Extensions\|DMX]] or [[SQL]]. * Properties - [[XML]] list of command properties such as Timeout, Catalog name, etc. The result of Execute command could be ''Multidimensional Dataset'' or ''Tabular Rowset''. ===Discover=== Discover method was designed to model all the discovery methods possible in [[OLEDB]] including various schema rowset, properties, keywords, etc. Discover method allows users to specify both what needs to be discovered and the possible restrictions or properties. The result of Discover method is a rowset.

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