what are determinants?

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what are determinants?..

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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what are determinants?..

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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what are determinants?..

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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what are determinants?..

Answer / gopal

By using determinants we avoid the double counting values....

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