3.144 ALL_CUBE_ATTRIBUTES

ALL_CUBE_ATTRIBUTES describes the attributes for the OLAP cube dimensions accessible to the current user.

Related Views

  • DBA_CUBE_ATTRIBUTES describes the attributes for all OLAP cube dimensions in the database.

  • USER_CUBE_ATTRIBUTES describes the attributes for the OLAP cube dimensions owned by the current user. This view does not display the OWNER column.

Column Datatype NULL Description

OWNER

VARCHAR2(128)

NOT NULL

Owner of the cube dimension

DIMENSION_NAME

VARCHAR2(128)

NOT NULL

Name of a cube dimension (such as TIME)

ATTRIBUTE_NAME

VARCHAR2(128)

NOT NULL

Name of an attribute of the dimension (such as LONG_DESCRIPTION or END_DATE)

ATTRIBUTE_ID

NUMBER

NOT NULL

ID of the attribute of the dimension

TARGET_DIMENSION_NAME

VARCHAR2(128)

Name of the target dimension of the attribute

ATTRIBUTE_ROLE

VARCHAR2(17)

Special role this attribute plays; NULL if none:

  • SHORT_DESCRIPTION

  • LONG_DESCRIPTION

  • DESCRIPTION

  • TIME_SPAN

  • END_DATE

DESCRIPTION

NVARCHAR2(300)

Description of the attribute in the session language

ATTRIBUTE_GROUP_NAME

VARCHAR2(200)

Name of the attribute group

DATA_TYPE

VARCHAR2(106)

Data type of the attribute, (such as VARCHAR2 or FLOAT)

DATA_LENGTH

NUMBER

NOT NULL

Length of a text data type

DATA_PRECISION

NUMBER

Precision of a numeric data type

DATA_SCALE

NUMBER

Scale of a numeric data type

CREATE_INDEX

VARCHAR2(3)

Create index flag of the OLAP attribute. Possible values:

  • YES: The attribute is represented in the AW as a relation.

    Setting CreateIndex="True" in the metadata guarantees that it will be represented in the AW as a relation.

  • NO: The attribute is not represented in the AW as a relation.

    Setting CreateIndex="False" in the metadata does not guarantee that it will be represented in the AW a a variable; the system will make that determination.

IS_MULTI_LINGUAL

VARCHAR2(3)

Shows the setting for the IsMultiLingual flag of the OLAP Atttribute. Possible values:

  • YES: The attribute is set as multilingual.

    Setting IsMultiLingual to True in the metadata means that the attribute can have a value per language instead of a single value.

  • NO: The attribute is not set as multilingual.

    Setting IsMultiLingual to False in the metadata means that the attribute has only one value, independent of language.

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