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A caution on using Dimensional DSVs in Data Mining

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Old 23rd June 2009, 09:34 PM   #1
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If you are using a dimensional-style DSV in a Data Mining project, such as below:
Fig 1: A Dimensional DSV


Be aware that if you include a column from a Dimension table in your Mining Structure, the model will actually identify each key entry on the source table as a distinct value, rather than each distinct value in the Dimension table. I found this out because I added a grouping category to one of my dimensional tables - a simple high - medium - low group - and there were multiple values in the attribute states for each grouping, as below:

Fig 2: Mining Legend


To work around this you will need to add a Named Calculation to get the group on the main table, or convert the main table to a Named Query.



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