Technical data

Chapter 5 Creating Data Cubes

DEPT_TO_REGION association data cube in the Analytic Model Viewer

See Also

Chapter 5, “Creating Data Cubes,” Creating Association Data Cubes, page 39

Chapter 7, “C reatin g Cube Collections,” Types of Cube Collections, p ag e 54

Virtual Data Cubes

A virtual data cube is a type of calculation data cube whose values are not saved to the database. Virtual data

cubes can exist in intermediate/calculation and presentation cube collections.

This table describes the characteristics of virtual data cubes and the resulting benefits to the analytic model:

Characteristic Benefit

Val ue d

ata of virtual data cube is not stored in the database.

Reduce

• Size of the database.

•Timeto

load data from the database.