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Business Intelligence What Are DAX Variables? DAX variables, defined with VAR and returned with RETURN, store intermediate results within a single expression so they are evaluated once, improving… Technical Business Intelligence What Is dbt (Data Build Tool)? dbt (data build tool) is a SQL-based transformation framework, available as open-source dbt Core and managed dbt Cloud, that lets teams write,… Technical Business Intelligence What Is a Degenerate Dimension? A degenerate dimension is a dimension attribute stored directly in the fact table with no separate dimension table, typically a transaction identifier… Technical Business Intelligence What Is Drill-Through vs Drill-Down in BI? Drill-through vs drill-down in BI distinguishes drill-down, which moves to lower hierarchy levels within the same visual, such as year to quarter… Technical Business Intelligence What Is Google Looker Studio? Google Looker Studio, formerly Data Studio, is Google's free, browser-based visualisation and dashboard tool that connects to Google Sheets, BigQuery, Google Analytics… Technical Business Intelligence What Is Grain (Data Warehouse)? Grain (data warehouse) is the definition of exactly what one row in a fact table represents, such as one journal line per… Technical Business Intelligence What Is a Junk Dimension? A junk dimension groups several low-cardinality flags and indicators, such as status codes, yes-or-no flags and transaction types, from a fact table… Technical Business Intelligence What Is Kimball vs Inmon Methodology? Kimball vs Inmon methodology compares Kimball's bottom-up dimensional approach of business-process star schemas joined by conformed dimensions with Inmon's top-down approach of… Technical Business Intelligence What Is KPI Design in BI? KPI design in BI is the specification of each key performance indicator's business definition, calculation logic, data source, owner, target, status thresholds,… Technical Business Intelligence What Is Medallion Architecture? Medallion architecture is a lakehouse design pattern that organises data into Bronze raw, Silver cleansed and conformed, and Gold business-ready layers, giving… Technical Business Intelligence What Is Microsoft Fabric? Microsoft Fabric is Microsoft's unified SaaS analytics platform, generally available since November 2023, combining data engineering, data factory, warehousing, real-time intelligence, data… Technical Business Intelligence What Is OLAP vs OLTP? OLAP vs OLTP contrasts online analytical processing systems, optimised for complex aggregations over large historical data, with online transaction processing systems such… Technical Business Intelligence What Are Oracle Analytics Cloud Subject Areas? Oracle Analytics Cloud subject areas are the presentation layer of the OAC semantic model, grouping governed dimensions and measures into business domains… Technical Business Intelligence What Is Oracle BI Publisher? Oracle BI Publisher, now Oracle Analytics Publisher, is Oracle's pixel-perfect reporting tool that separates data models from layout templates to generate formatted… Technical Business Intelligence What Is Oracle EPM Cloud Reporting? Oracle EPM Cloud reporting covers the reporting capabilities within Oracle EPM Cloud, including the web-based Reports tool, Narrative Reporting for report packages… Technical

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