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What is a baseline column ?

Dimensional Data Modeling - Descriptif Attribute (Dimensional Attribute) in OBIEE.

A baseline column is a column unlike the measure column that has no aggregation rule defined in the Aggregation tab of the Logical Column dialog in the repository.

Obiee Baseline Column

The BI Server don't see it as a measure and then add it of:

  • in the GROUP BY clause
  • of in a ROW_NUMBER function

in the physical sql generated in order to preserve (of augment) the grain of the logical SQL