define/set parameter values in Management Studio?

If you have a query w/ a parameter in it (copied from reporting services, but now working with management studio), how do you declare the parameter and set its value in sql server management studio? I've had to unfortunately find all occurrences of the parameters and replace their values each time I want to change them when executing the mdx.

Unfortunately, I don't believe their is an easy and straightforward way to do this. About the only option I've been able to find is wrapping the MDX query in an XMLA query, which allows you to have parameters and define their values. The problem with this approach is that the result of the XMLA query is an XML response which contains a lot of metadata as well as the data (but it is not in any type of format that would allow you to easily look at just the query results).

Here's a link to a topic in BOL that shows an example of this:

ms-help://MS.SQLCC.v9/MS.SQLSVR.v9.en/mdxref9/html/a4754d16-d9c4-49f6-9be0-392180b912e4.htm

If your query is a relatively simple one that returns a relatively simple result, this approach might work...

HTH,

Dave Fackler