Drilling Within Reports
So far in this chapter, you have explored many meaningful ways to analyze data in reports, including sorts, breaks, calculations, filters, and ranking. With multidimensional analysis and drilling, you look at the same data but from different viewpoints. The viewpoints may be from different levels of detail by drilling down, or from different dimensions by drilling across.
As you’ve learned, a dimension is a kind of object by which you analyze numeric measures. Dimensions often have different levels or groupings associated with them called hierarchies. Multidimensional analysis is the process of analyzing data by different dimensions and by different hierarchies. Within Web Intelligence, you can perform multidimensional ...
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