Dimension Attributes: Introduction and Overview, Part V

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 Advanced group of properties in Dimension Attributes: Introduction and Overview, Part I, and continued with an examination of the Basic, Misc and Parent-Child properties in Part II, Part III, and Part IV, respectively, looking forward to each subsequent part of our introduction and overview of dimension attributes, where we explored the remaining attribute properties. 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 Source group of attribute properties (including what these properties define and support, and how we can manage them) underpinning attributes.