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SAS Namespace Types

Measure


Subclass of LogicalColumn

Subtypes


Overview

A special dimension that contains summarized numeric data values that are analyzed. Total Sales and Average Revenue are examples of measures. For example, you might drill down within the Clothing hierarchy of the Product dimension to see the value of the Total Sales measure for the Shirts member.

Security Inheritance and Enforcement Rules

The following list of associations is used to determine if this object should inherit access controls from another object (inheritance), or if the association is allowed for the object (enforcement). An association will not be created unless the calling user is authorized to update one or both objects involved in the association. For more information about inheritance and enforcement rules, see the SAS Intelligence Platform: Security Administration Guide.

Attributes

Name Description Type Length
IsStoredStatistic True if the statistic is precalculated, false if the statistic need to be calculated.   int  
Statistic Later we will add a list of recommended string values.   String 200  
UniqueName The unique name for a measure   String 256  
Units The units of the measure.   String 32  

Inherited Attributes
Name, Id, Desc, MetadataCreated, MetadataUpdated, ChangeState, ColumnLength, ColumnName, ColumnType, IsHidden, LockedBy, PublicType, SASFormat, SASInformat, UsageVersion

Associations

= indicates the resident side of an association, or where the association is persisted for cross-repository associations. If no resident side is indicated, this association may not cross repository boundaries.
Name Cardinality Description Associated Types
Cubes

Partner: Measures

0 to * The cubes that contain this measure.   Cube
OwningDimension

Partner: Measures

1 to 1 The dimension that contains this measure. Dimension
SharedDimension

Inherited Associations
AccessControls/Objects, Changes/Objects, CustomAssociations/OwningObject, Documents/Objects, Extensions/OwningObject, ExternalIdentities/OwningObject, FavoritesContainers/Favorites, Groups/Members, Implementors/ImplementedObjects, Keywords/Objects, LocalizedAttributes/AssociatedLocalizedObject, Notes/Objects, PrimaryPropertyGroup/AssociatedObject, Prompts/PromptEnabledObject, Properties/AssociatedObject, PropertySets/OwningObject, ReferencedObjects/AssociatedObjects, ResponsibleParties/Objects, SourceFeatureMaps/FeatureSources, SourceTransformations/TransformationSources, SpecSourceTransformations/SourceSpecifications, SpecTargetTransformations/TargetSpecifications, TargetFeatureMaps/FeatureTargets, TargetTransformations/TransformationTargets, Timestamps/Objects, Trees/Members, TSObjectNamespace/TSObjects, UsedByPrototypes/UsingPrototype, UsingPrototype/UsedByPrototypes, Variables/AssociatedObject

Attribute Details

IsStoredStatistic
     Type:  int  

True if the statistic is precalculated, false if the statistic need to be calculated.

Statistic
     Type:  String 200  

Later we will add a list of recommended string values.

UniqueName
     Type:  String 256  

The unique name for a measure

Units
     Type:  String 32  

The units of the measure.

Association Details

Cubes
     Cardinality:   0 to *
     Partner:  Measures

The cubes that contain this measure.  

Associated Types:
Cube

OwningDimension
     Cardinality:   1 to 1
     Partner:  Measures

The dimension that contains this measure.  

Associated Types:
Dimension, SharedDimension

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