slice-element-assl.md

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Slice Element (ASSL) | Microsoft Docs	Learn about the Slice property element in the Analysis Services Scripting Language (ASSL) schema.	7/25/2018	analysis-services	assl	kfollis	reference	kfollis	kfollis

Slice Element (ASSL)

Contains a Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) expression defining the slice contained in a partition.

Syntax

  
<Partition>  
      ...  
   <Slice>...</Slice>  
   ...  
</Partition>  

Element Characteristics

Characteristic	Description
Data type and length	String
Default value	None
Cardinality	0-1: Optional element that can occur once and only once.

Element Relationships

Relationship	Element
Parent element	Partition
Child elements	None

Remarks

The Slice element contains an MDX tuple expression or set expression that identifies the portion of the cube for which the partition stores information. The MDX expression is similar to the StrToSet MDX function with the CONSTRAINED keyword, in that the expression cannot include MDX or user-defined functions.

The element that corresponds to the parent of Slice in the Analysis Management Objects (AMO) object model is xref:Microsoft.AnalysisServices.Partition.

See Also

Properties (ASSL)