Business context – Attributes

MicroStrategy Attributes are objects which represent a business context, or dimension. The following is a quick reference table for this MicroStrategy Object:

 The Attributes will provide the level in which a given Fact is stored in the database and which that Fact can be aggregated to. An Attribute could be mapped to one or more columns in a database table. These tables are commonly referred to as lookup tables or dimension tables. However, it could be mapped to any type of table such as Fact tables.

As opposed to the Facts, the Attributes are not directly built from MicroStrategy but from one or more MicroStrategy ...

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