Need information on Dimension levels

Hello everyone specially Igor,
Last time i asked about filling of Dimension and fact. And Mr. Igor explained well to me. Now i want to know that how many level must be in a hierarcy like Mr. Igor gave me an example that in a Customer dimension the cust_id level will be the last level in the hierarchy and cust_type_id level will be that last level in the other hierarchy and one level can have more columns (attributs)other then id e.g cust_name, address, age etc etc., so now i want to ask that if we put all these columns (attributs) in one level of a hierarchy then what will bethe other columns (attributes).
For example i have a Loan module of a bank to make then how many dimensions will be there like i made seperate dimensions for customer personal informaton, customer address, customer contact informtaion, loan details, loan types etc. If i follow the above instructions then i will put Customer personal information, customer address, customer contact infotmaion in one dimension with three seperate hierarchies with this inforamtion and other dimension named loan right. Which means i will have two to thre dimendsions in my whole loam modules.
Please tell me with example about the levels in hierarchy and hierarcies in a dimension.
Here i also want to specify that i dont have anyresource to learn OWB in my whole area.
Thanks you and wating for you repaly.
Mustafa Ali Qizilbash
[email protected]

Mustafa,
As per your brief description, you would have at least 3 dimensions: Customer, Loan and Time (time is almost always there). The customer personal information, customer address and customer contact infotmaion would not go to separate hierarchies, but to the same hierarchy and possibly to the same level (the lowest one - customer) of the customer hierarchy, because they belong to a single customer. Therefore, you would have a customet key (customer_id) and customer_name, customer_address and cust_contact_info on the first level of the customer hierarchy as attributes. What levels you would have above the customer level in your hierarchy depends on how you want to classify your customer data. For example, if you want to classify customers by geographical area (and don't want to have a separate geography dimension), you could have a geography hierarchy within the customer dimension with levels like cust_city (with cust_city_id key and attributes like city_name, city_population ...), cust_region etc. up to the highest level of the hierarchy that would probably be cust_total. From the reporting tool you will then be able to navigate data from the customer total, down to regions, cities and finally to a single customer. You could have multiple hierarchies in the customer dimension if you decide to classify customers in more that one way. For example, apart from classifying the customers geographically, you might also want to classify the customers by income level. You would then have an income hierarchy which would again start from the customer level (common to the income and geography hierarchies), and then continue up with levels like income_class etc. up to customer total (which would again be common to the two hierarchies).
Similarly (depending on your business requirements) for your loan dimension, you would have one or more hierarchies, each with several levels.
For the time dimension, OWB provides an out of the box dimension (see in the directory <owb_home>\owb\misc\time) with a hierarchy that goes from days to months to quarters to years.
Regards:
Igor

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