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OBIEE – Dimension Hierarchies

OBIEE – Dimension Hierarchies


What is a Hierarchy: Hierarchy is a series of many-to-one relationships and can be of different levels.  For Example Region hierarchy consists of below: 
Region → Country → State → City → Street


Hierarchies can follow two approaches 
1) Top-down Approach
Example : Region → Country → State → City → Street

2) Bottom-up Approach
Example : Street→  City →  State → Country →Region



Logical Dimensions or Dimensional hierarchies are created in BMM layer, which are two types 
  1. Level-based hierarchies.
  2. Parent-Child hierarchies.

What is a level-based hierarchies ?
Members can be of different types and members of the same type come only at single level.

Parent-Child hierarchies ?,



all members are of the same type.

Dimensions with Level-based Hierarchies
Level-based dimension hierarchies can also contain parent-child relationships. The common sequence to create level-based hierarchies is to start with grand total level and then working down to lower levels.

Level-based hierarchies allows you to perform:

  1. Level-based calculated measures.
  2. Aggregate navigation.
  3. Drill down to child level in dashboards.
Types of Level-based Hierarchies:
  1. Ragged hierarchy: It is a hierarchy that has an uneven number of levels.
  2. Skip Level Hierarchies: In skip-level hierarchies, few members don’t have values at higher level.

For Example − For one city, you have state → country → Region. However for other city, you have only state and it doesn’t fall under any country or region.


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