Hear a lot of members, member keys in the OLAP world.. What is it ?

A member is a dimension value.

In the project dimension you can have member A, B and C.

Member keys typically refers to surrogate keys .... you have a fact table
containing the values but when linking this table to the dimension table you
normally don't use the original dimension codes A, B, and C - you make this
link with surrogate int keys ... but of course you show the corect codes as
member name.

"Hassan" <fatima_ja (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote