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Notes 8. Give some examples of expression and descriptions.
9. Discuss about the spread sheet formulas.
10. What is the analysis services speed?
11. Explain the concept of metadata.

12. What are the various types of metadata?
13. Discuss about the metadata functions.
14. What are the advantages of metadata?

Answers: Self Assessment

1. Averages 2. Cube

3. Measure 4. Calculated member
5. Hierarchy 6. OLAP
7. Learning curve 8. True
9. False 10. Metadata
11. Name/value pair 12. Metadata query expression

13. Zero 14. Lowercase
15. Cross dimensional calculations 16. OLAP Aware Functions
17. False 18. True

19. True 20. True
4.11 Further Readings

Books Carlo Vercellis (2011). “Business Intelligence: Data Mining and Optimization for Decision
Making”. John Wiley & Sons.
David Loshin (2012). “Business Intelligence: The Savvy Manager’s Guide”. Newnes.

Elizabeth Vitt, Michael Luckevich, Stacia Misner (2010). “Business Intelligence”.
O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Rajiv Sabhrwal, Irma Becerra-Fernandez (2010). “Business Intelligence”. John
Wiley & Sons.
Swain Scheps (2013). “Business Intelligence for Dummies”. Wiley.

Online links dublincore.org/metadata-basics/

www.guardian.co.uk › Technology › Data protection
www.newyorker.com/.../verizon-nsa-metadata-surveillance-problem.html
www.sas.com/technologies/bi/olap/

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