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Exercise No. 24: Paperboy (apa)

The cube resulting from DFM Case "paperboy" stores data about customers getting newspapers by a paperboy.

We have four dimensions with the following hierarchical structure:

Table A.E.50.1 - paperboy

Please build the Aggregation Path Array and assume the following end-user requirements:

1) "a roll up by the time dimension starting at weeks for each combination of paperboy and newspaper independent of all other dimensions"

2) "a monthly report on the district level independent of all other dimensions"

3) "a complete drill-down by the time dimension down to weeks for each combination of city and publishing house, irrespective of all other dimensions"

Select the corresponding cells in the APA and choose the cubes to materialize, then highlight the derivatives of those cubes.

Solution

This exercise is part of a case study: dfm - apa - log

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