MicroStrategy Mobile Design and Administration Guide

Glossary Mobile Design and Administration Guide
many-to-many An attribute relationship in which multiple elements of a
parent attribute can relate to multiple elements of a child
attribute, and vice versa.
See also:
• relationship
• one-to-many
• many-to-one
many-to-one An attribute relationship in which (1) multiple elements of a
parent attribute relate to only one element of a child
attribute, and (2) every element of the child attribute can
relate to multiple elements of the parent.
See also:
• one-to-one
• one-to-many
• many-to-many
• relationship
metadata A repository whose data associates the tables and columns of
a data warehouse with user-defined attributes and facts to
enable the mapping of the business view, terms, and needs to
the underlying database structure. Metadata can reside on
the same server as the data warehouse or on a different
database server. It can even be held in a different RDBMS.
metric 1) A business calculation defined by an expression built with
functions, facts, attributes, or other metrics. For example:
Sum(dollar_sales) or [Sales] - [Cost].
2) The MicroStrategy object that contains the metric
definition. It represents a business measure or key
performance indicator.
See also fact.
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