MDC 101: A Simple Contrast between Traditional and Multidimensional Clustering Tables
To best understand the advantages of MDC tables and what they can offer your environment, a contrast and comparison with traditional tables is beneficial. Let's look at a business that is most interested in three specific dimensions of data: an associated stock keeping unit (SKU) that represents a sold product, the store location where the product was sold, and the date the sale took place.
Figure 2.1 illustrates a sample of data stored in a traditional table.
Figure 2.1. A traditional table.
Assuming you want to organize your data across these multiple dimensions ...
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