Chapter 7. Analyzing date and time intervals
Chapter 4, “Working with date and time,” discussed time intelligence and calculations over time. This chapter will show you several models that, again, use time as the primary analytical tool. This time, however, we are not interested in discussing calculations like year-to-date (YTD) and year-over-year. Instead, we want to discuss scenarios in which time is the focus of the analysis, but not necessarily the main dimension used to slice. Thus, we will show you scenarios like computing the number of working hours in a period, the number of employees available in different time frames for various projects, and the number of orders currently being processed.
What makes these models different from a standard ...
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