what are determinants?
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Answer / satyanand86.m
To prevent double counting on multi fact/multi grain queries we need determinants on query subjects that have multiple level of granularity used to aggregate facts.
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Answer / srinivas naidu
Determinents are new concept introduced in cognos 8 this is
used to avoiding double counting in framework
manager.......suppose if the data existing more time in
tables at that time we go for determinents(avoiding
duplicates)
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Answer / sreenivas
Determients is the set of database columns that can be
used to uniquely identify set of data.
Determinants are imported based on key and index
information in the data source
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Answer / gopal
By using determinants we avoid the double counting values....
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