Update to Thriller MDX over JDBC driver

I made a few adjustments and fixes to the experimental Thriller MDX over JDBC driver I have been playing with off and on. As a quick recap, Thriller is a normal JDBC driver that essentially passes MDX queries straight through to an Essbase server, and then maps the results into a normal JDBC ResultSet using a set of provided “hints” that tell it how to make George Spofford cry flatten the results.

There were a couple of issues related to how queries with various CrossJoins were handled that should now be fixed. Additionally, there are now a couple of new options to provide more configurability over how tuples are split or joined together. Things are definitely getting interesting for this concept.

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