Dimension Attributes: Introduction and Overview, Part IV

Having covered the general characteristics and purposes of attributes, we fixed our focus upon the properties underlying them, based upon the examination of a representative attribute within our sample cube. We discussed the Misc group of properties, looking forward to subsequent parts of our introduction and overview of dimension attributes, where we explore the remaining attribute properties groups. In this part of our overview of attributes, our examination will include:

• A continuation of our introduction to dimension attributes from a conceptual perspective;
• Extended discussion surrounding the general characteristics of attributes;
• An examination of the Parent-Child group of attribute properties (including what these properties define and support, and how we can manage them).