Chapter 5 Building Multidimensional Diagrams

Multidimensional diagram objects

You can create the following objects in a multidimensional diagram:

Object	Tool	Symbol	Description
Cube			Collection of measures related to aspects of the business and used to carry out a decision support investigation. See Cubes (PDM).
Dimension			Axis of investigation of a cube (time, product, geography). See Dimensions (PDM).
Attribute	[none]	[none]	Used to qualify a dimension. For example, attribute Year qualifies the Date dimension. See Attributes (PDM).
Fact	[none]	[none]	Group of measures used among cubes. See Facts (PDM).
Measure	[none]	[none]	Variable linked to a fact, used as the focus of a decision support investigation. See Measures (PDM).
Hierarchy	[none]	[none]	Organizational structure that describes a traversal pattern though a dimension. See Hierarchies (PDM).
Association			Association that relates a cube to a dimension. See Associations (PDM).

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