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6.2.2 Manually merging source cube objects
It is possible to manually merge objects in a virtual cube that could not be merged
automatically. The following sections describe how to manually define these objects.
Defining a virtual dimension
Figure 6-4 on page 136 shows source cube gosldw_sales that has a dimension named Time,
and source cube gosldw_target has a dimension named Time-month-target. Because these
dimensions have different names, they were not merged automatically, so two virtual
dimensions Time and Time-month-target are added to the virtual cube. If both dimensions
contain the same structure and data,