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Define dicing
Short answer
Dicing is an OLAP operation that selects values or ranges on two or more dimensions, producing a smaller sub-cube with the same number of dimensions. Example: from a sales cube, dice with time = Q1 or Q2, location = Kathmandu or Pokhara, item = mobile or laptop yields a smaller 2x2x2 cube.
Define dicing with example.
Dicing is an OLAP operation that selects values (or ranges) on two or more dimensions of a data cube, producing a smaller sub-cube with the same number of dimensions. It is like a WHERE condition on several dimensions.
Example: from the sales cube (time, item, location), dice with
time = Q1 or Q2 and location = Kathmandu or Pokhara and item = mobile or laptop.
The result is a smaller 2 × 2 × 2 cube containing only those cells.
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