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05/23/2011

Member Class

Represents a single member within a hierarchy, tuple, level, or member.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
Microsoft.AnalysisServices.AdomdServer.Member

Namespace: Microsoft.AnalysisServices.AdomdServer
Assembly: msmgdsrv (in msmgdsrv.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public NotInheritable Class Member _
    Implements IDisposable, IMetadataObject
'Usage
Dim instance As Member

public sealed class Member : IDisposable, 
    IMetadataObject

public ref class Member sealed : IDisposable, 
    IMetadataObject

[<SealedAttribute>]
type Member =  
    class
        interface IDisposable
        interface IMetadataObject
    end

public final class Member implements IDisposable, IMetadataObject

The Member type exposes the following members.

Properties

	Name	Description
	Caption	Gets the caption of the Member.
	ChildCount	Gets the estimated count of child members contained in the Member.
	Description	Gets the descriptive text of the Member.
	LevelDepth	Gets the ordinal position of the level that contains the Member.
	LevelName	Gets the name of the level that contains the Member.
	Name	Gets the name of the Member.
	Parent	Gets a reference to the parent Member, if applicable, that contains the Member.
	ParentLevel	This property gets a Level that contains the Member.
	Type	Gets the member type of the Member.
	UniqueName	Gets the unique name of the Member.

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Methods

	Name	Description
	{dtor}	Releases all resources used by the Member.
	Dispose	Releases all resources used by the Member.
	Equals	(Inherited from Object.)
	Finalize	(Inherited from Object.)
	GetChildren	Returns a MemberCollection that contains a collection of child members for the Member.
	GetHashCode	(Inherited from Object.)
	GetType	(Inherited from Object.)
	MemberwiseClone	(Inherited from Object.)
	ToString	(Inherited from Object.)

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Remarks

A member is an item in a hierarchy that represents one or more records in the underlying relational database. A member is the lowest level of reference used when accessing cell data in a cube.

Members are used to construct tuples, which in turn are used to construct sets. Members are organized hierarchically; a member can have other members associated with it. For example, in a time dimension that contains three levels named Year, Month, and Day, the members of the Day level are leaf members because they have no child members. The members in the Year and Month levels are nonleaf members, because each member in the Month level has at least 28 child members from the Day level and each member in the Year level has 12 child members from the Month level.

The Member encapsulates the information necessary to describe a member, including a collection of Member objects that contain child members, if applicable.

The information available to a Member depends on the parent of the Members collection from which the Member was retrieved. While the Members collection externally represents a collection of Member objects for a specified Hierarchy, Tuple, Level, or Member, the collection is internally loaded and managed in one of two ways, depending on the parent of the Hierarchy, Tuple, Level, or Member:

If the parent object was referenced through a CubeDef in order to retrieve metadata from the server, the collection represents the members that are defined for the parent object.
If the parent object was referenced through a CellSet in order to retrieve metadata from a query, the collection represents the members that are retrieved for the set (or axis) that contains the parent object.

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

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