How List of Values Works

When a user adds a condition to a query, Web Intelligence essentially launches a second query and returns a list from the dimension or lookup table in the RDBMS, as shown in Figure 8-1. In this example, the user has a query filter on City image To be able to pick from a list of city names, the Enterprise server will query the data source for a list of valid cities image A list of cities is displayed to the user image and the user selects ...

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