SAS/Warehouse Administrator Metadata Types

WHOLPDIM

Metadata type for OLAP dimension

Category:

Object Types--OLAP

Parent
Overview
Properties
Using WHOLPDIM

Parent

WHOLAP

Overview

WHOLPDIM models the metadata for OLAP dimensions in OLAP tables, groups, and MDDBs. A dimension organizes related columns, which are in hierarchies. For example, you could organize sales data into three dimensions: Geography, Time, and Product. The Time dimension could include these hierarchies, which provide different paths in order to drill down to increasing levels of detail: Time-by-Week and Time-by-Month.

Properties

The following table lists all of the properties for WHOLPDIM and indicates how you can use each property with metadata API methods.

In the table, you can specify properties with a Yes in the Indirect Add column when you indirectly add one object through another, as described in the documentation for the _UPDATE_METADATA_ method. Use this approach to add a new dependent object. For details, see Using _UPDATE_METADATA_.

You can pass properties with a Yes in the Update column to the _UPDATE_METADATA_ method, as described in the documentation for this method. Use this method to update properties of an existing object. For details, see Using _UPDATE_METADATA_.

* Req indicates that the property is required; you must provide a value for this property when you use a given method. * Default indicates that the system will provide a default value for that property if you do not provide one. * Auto supplied means that the property is automatically supplied; any value that you specify for such a property is ignored.

Properties with a Yes in the Read Method Expand Parm column are valid with the expand parameter of the _GET_METADATA_ method. This method enables you to get detailed metadata about a property and its associated objects through a single method call.

Properties	Type	Indirect Add	Update Method	Read Method Expand Parm.
Cvalue	C	Yes	Yes	No
Desc	C	Yes	Yes	No
Extended Attributes	L	Yes	Yes	Yes
Id	C	* Req	No	No
Metadata Created	C	* Auto supplied	No	No
Metadata Updated	C	* Auto supplied	No	No
Name	C	* Req	Yes	No
Note	L	Yes	No	Yes
NValue	N	Yes	Yes	No
OLAP Groups	L	* Auto supplied	No	No
OLAP Members	L	Yes	Yes	Yes

Using WHOLPDIM

Add	Update	Delete
No	Yes	Yes

WHOLPDIM is a dependent type, like its parent, WHOLAP.

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