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Measures vs Dimensions vs attributes in aggregate measures

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Hi experts,

I'm bit confused in case of attributes and dimensions in case of aggregate measures. As per my understanding
Measures are something where mathematical operations can be performed such as avg, sum , etc
Dimension is something through which we are slicing data like based on year,date
And in case of attribute it feels same as that of dimension basically I'm confused in those two things can anyone clearify that ?

Thanks!

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  • SThakur Profile Picture
    412 on at

    Aggregate measurement is to actually create and link the measure to the dimensions that can further be used for analytics.

    So correctly said measure is something you create and it will be a sum or count of data [as an example].

    The dimension will be another layer where you slice the measure by.

    E.g. Total number of sales by product. Here sales is the measure and product is the dimension.

    Dimension attributes are fields, columns of the dimension table.

    E.g.

    For Product - Product_ID, Product_Name)

    For Customer - Cust_ID, Cust_Name)

    Can you elaborate what you are trying to achieve by acquiring this information?

    Thanks,

    Shilpi

  • Akshay Thombare Profile Picture
    255 on at

    actually I'm confused between selecting fields for aggregate dimension and attributes while developing aggregate measure

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