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    There are two types of hierarchies in a data warehouse: system hierarchies and user-defined hierarchies. Fact extensions and degradations define how facts can be extended or lowered across different levels in a data warehouse schema. There are three main types of facts: simple facts defined by expressions, implicit facts that are virtual constants, and derived facts calculated from expressions combining multiple columns. Metrics can also take different forms such as simple metrics with aggregates, nested metrics with multiple aggregations, compound metrics combining expressions, and derived metrics. Level metrics specify the attribute level at which a metric is evaluated to compare metrics rolled up to different levels.

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    There are two types of hierarchies in a data warehouse: system hierarchies and user-defined hierarchies. Fact extensions and degradations define how facts can be extended or lowered across different levels in a data warehouse schema. There are three main types of facts: simple facts defined by expressions, implicit facts that are virtual constants, and derived facts calculated from expressions combining multiple columns. Metrics can also take different forms such as simple metrics with aggregates, nested metrics with multiple aggregations, compound metrics combining expressions, and derived metrics. Level metrics specify the attribute level at which a metric is evaluated to compare metrics rolled up to different levels.

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    There are two types of hierarchies in a data warehouse: system hierarchies and user-defined hierarchies. Fact extensions and degradations define how facts can be extended or lowered across different levels in a data warehouse schema. There are three main types of facts: simple facts defined by expressions, implicit facts that are virtual constants, and derived facts calculated from expressions combining multiple columns. Metrics can also take different forms such as simple metrics with aggregates, nested metrics with multiple aggregations, compound metrics combining expressions, and derived metrics. Level metrics specify the attribute level at which a metric is evaluated to compare metrics rolled up to different levels.

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    How are the drilling options for an attribute decided?

    Based on relation between attributes, hierarchies and their drilling configuration


    What are the two types of Hierarchies?
    System hierarchy: It contains all the project attributes and its available browse paths and is based on
    relation between attributes.
    User defined Hierarchy: Custom grouping of attributes and define their browse paths.
    Facts
    What is fact extension?

    You can use level extensions to change a fact level, which is a set of attributes that represent the lowest
    level of detail at which the fact exists in the warehouse.
    Level extensions define how facts can be extended, lowered, or disallowed to other facts across the
    schema.
    What is fact degradation?
    When facts exist at a higher level than the report display level, you must specify how the Engine degrades
    the data to the lower level. When you lower the level at which a fact is reported, you are using
    degradation.
    Types of facts
    Simple facts
    A simple fact is made up of one or more fact expressions. With a simple fact definition, you can define a
    fact as a column, constant, or simple expression.
    Implicit facts
    An implicit fact is a virtual or constant fact that does not physically exist in the database because it is
    created at the application level.
    Derived facts
    A derived fact has its value determined by an expression that combines two or more columns in a
    database to create a new column.
    Metrics
    What are different types of metrics?

    Simple : Simple metrics combine aggregate operators with fact columns or attributes.
    Nested: Metrics that perform multiple aggregations by placing one calculation formula inside another
    Compound : A compound metric is a combination of expressions that, through the use of functions, are
    themselves metrics.
    Derived
    What is Base Formula?
    Use a simple expression as a base formula to facilitate the creation of more complex metrics.

    What is smart metrics?


    Compound metrics are the ones that are derived by some specific expression involving the different
    simple metrics. Eg, Total( profit/units Sold). Smart metrics is when the compound metric is calculated
    with the help of subtotal calculations for every element inside the compound metric. For the above
    example the smart metric computation can be Total(profit)/Total(Sold).
    What is level metric?
    Level metrics are advanced metrics which are set to be evaluated at a specified attribute level. These are
    required when in the same report you need to roll up a metric at two different levels side by side. Example
    is comparison of Revenue from a Region to Revenue from a Country. Here Region and Country
    are the two different levels.
    The level of a metric, also referred to as dimensionality, allows you to determine the attribute level
    at which the metric is calculated.
    Default Report Level
    The elements needed to specify a level for a metric
    Target
    - Attribute level at which the metric
    Grouping - Determines the metric aggregation.
    Filtering - governs the relationship between the
    report filter and the calculation of the metric.

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