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Exercise No. 2: Banking (apa)

This cube stores data about a customer asking for a loan at a bank.

We have three dimensions with the following hierarchical structure:

Table A.E.2.1 - banking

Please build the Aggregation Path Array and assume the following end-user requirement:

1) "a roll up by the time dimension starting at months for each customer, irrespective of the branch the customer goes to."

Select the corresponding cells in the APA and choose a cube to materialize, then highlight the derivatives of this cube.

Solution

Figure A.E.2.1 - The resulting APA with the redundancy free-set highlighted

Size of the redundancy-free set (including the base cube): 36

Required cubes, the materialization decision and derivatives

The blue area represents the end-user requirement 1 ("a roll up by the time dimension starting at months for each customer, irrespective of the branch the customer goes to."), it is met by materializing cube v = (C_cu, B_*, T_m) (dark blue cell "T_m"). The area to the right of the black line includes all derivatives of v.

Figure A.E.2.2 - Derivatives of cube v = (C_cu,B_*,T_m)

This exercise is part of a case study: dfm - apa - log

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