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MicroStrategy Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   MicroStrategy Quick Start Guide Data analytics and visualizations for Business Intelligence

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789136241
Length 218 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Fernando Carlos Rivero Esqueda Fernando Carlos Rivero Esqueda
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Architecture - Installing and Configuring MicroStrategy FREE CHAPTER 2. Project Design - Creating Your Project Foundation 3. Basic Reporting - Building Your First Reports 4. Advanced Reporting - Interacting with and Improving Your Reports 5. Dashboarding - Creating Visual Reporting 6. Security - Managing Your Users and Their Access 7. Administration - Maintaining and Monitoring Your Project 8. Quick Reference Tables by Object Type 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Business raw measures – Facts

MicroStrategy Facts are objects that represent a business measure stored in a database table. The following is a quick reference table for this MicroStrategy Object:

These measures usually have the following characteristics:

  • They are numerical
  • They can be aggregated (summed up or operated in some way)

The Facts usually map directly to one or more columns in a Fact table. The Fact is defined with a MicroStrategy expression. An expression could be:

  • Base: an expression which is represented as a single table field
  • Derived: an expression in which two or more table fields are operated or a function is applied to them

The Fact on its own is meaningless. It needs a context and a rule of aggregation in order to be useful. In the following sections, we will learn about which other MicroStrategy Objects serve this purpose.

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