What is difference between drill through and drill down?

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What is difference between drill through and drill down?..

Answer / joydeep

drill through means navigating from one report to a
different report in order to get detailed data. while drill
up/down is done within the same report.

drill through can be done in relational, DMR and OLAP data.
relational to relational
DMR to DMR or relational
OLAP to OLAP, DMR or relational

drlii down/up can be done only on DMR and OLAP

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What is difference between drill through and drill down?..

Answer / mohit

drill through means navigating from one report to a
different report in order to get detailed data. while drill
up/down is done within the same report.

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What is difference between drill through and drill down?..

Answer / samba

drill through means navigating from one reprt to a
different report like parrent report to child report that
child report give detaild data.
while drill
up/down is done within the same report like detaild data to
summery data.

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What is difference between drill through and drill down?..

Answer / nasa

drill through means navigation from summary level to detail
level

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drill down: it show the just next level not from summary to
detail...

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What is difference between drill through and drill down?..

Answer / s.srinivas

DRILL THROUGH ALLOWS U TO NAVIGATE FROM SUMMARY TO DETAILED
INFORMATION.DRILL DOWN AL SO SIMILAR KIND OF THING FOR
EXAMPLE WILL DO DRILL DOWN ON YEAR IF WU DRILL DOWN ON THIS
THE NEXT LEVEL WILL COME MEANS YEAR CONTAINS QUATERS, IT
CONTAINS MONTHS ,MONTHS CONTAINS WEEKS, WEEK CONTAINS
DAYS.SO,WE CAN VIEW ALL THE LEVELS THROUGH DRILL DOWN

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