MicroStrategy Mobile Design and Administration Guide

Glossary Mobile Design and Administration Guide
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fact 1) A measurement value, often numeric and typically
aggregatable, stored in a data warehouse.
2) A schema object representing a column in a data
warehouse table and containing basic or aggregated
numbers—usually prices, sales in dollars, or inventory
quantities in counts.
See also: metric.
filter A MicroStrategy object that specifies the conditions that the
data must meet to be included in the report results. Using a
filter on a report narrows the data to consider only the
information that is relevant to answer your business
question, since a report queries the database against all the
data stored in the data warehouse.
A filter is composed of at least one qualification, which is the
actual condition that must be met for the data to be included
on a report. Multiple qualifications in a single filter are
combined using logical operators. Examples include “Region
= Northeast” or “Revenue > $1 million”.
A filter is normally implemented in the SQL WHERE clause.
grid unit The individual attributes, metrics, consolidations, and
custom groups that can be placed on a report grid.
hierarchy A set of attributes defining a meaningful path for element
browsing or drilling. The order of the attributes is
typically—though not always—defined such that a higher
attribute has a one-to-many relationship with its child
attributes.
See also: user hierarchy.
HTML document 1) A compound report displaying multiple grids and graphs.
2) The MicroStrategy object that supports such a report.
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