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7.6.2.5 Compound Attributes Previously (near the end of Section 7.4.3.2), the issue of
query performance degradation due to queries against multiple attribute dimensions
was introduced. One possible solution is to convert one of the Attribute dimensions to
a Stored dimension. is, of course, means that your users will always have to include
that dimension on their spreadsheets, and the former Attribute association will have to
be made on every data record at load time instead of through metadata when the outline
is built.
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