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IBM Cognos 10 Framework Manager
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IBM Cognos 10 Framework Manager

by Terence Phillip Curran
May 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
186 pages
3h 45m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 4. Modeling Relational Data

After importing the metadata from your relational data source, you must ensure that it meets the reporting requirements of your users. This chapter will cover the modeling of the relationships between the data tables.

The topics covered in this chapter include:

  • Dimension and fact tables
  • Cardinality
  • Determinants
  • Role playing dimensions
  • Loop joins
  • Reflexive and recursive joins

By the end of this chapter, you will have modeled the relationships between the tables in an imported relational data source.

During the import process Framework Manager can automatically create the relationships between tables for you. In this situation it is important to review the created relationships to ensure that they give the correct results ...

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