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Characters:

On what basis we are going to measure key figures. E.g.

Customer No, Material No.

Unit Characters:

will give values to key figures. Wherever we use key

figure, a unit character will follow the key figure. E.g. PUNIT, QUNIT, RUNIT.

Unit Character

Time Characters:

Date of transaction (DOT), Year of Transaction (YOT),

Month Of transaction (MOT.

TYPES OF DATA
Master Data
Transaction Data
Master Data: Detailed level of information of character
info object is called Master Data. This data has nothing to
do with occurrence of business.

Master Data
** Characters are normally primary key. Key figures can
never be a primary key. Master data will not change
frequently.

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Transaction Data: Data related to occurrence of

business is called transaction data. E.g. Bank balance.
Transaction data changes frequently.
Behavior of data:
Master Data: Data in the master tables
overwrites. Master Data give present truths.

is

CNO ADR
C1

MHL

C1

CHD

C1

CHD

Transaction Data: Data in the transaction

tables adds up. It gives fact truths.
CNO BAL
C1

10K

C1

5K

C1

15K

Note ** Master Table

all the fields are Character

Q= Will system allow a key figure in master table?
Ans.= We know that master data does not change
frequently but key figures changes frequently and
normally falls under transaction table.

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Yes we can use key figures in master tables.

Last
Month salary
Current Month Salary, Including some
bonus.
If it is master then 40,000 becomes 45000
CNO.
C1
C1

Date
(yesterdays )
(todays)

Bank Balance
100
150

If it is master table then updated bank balance will be

150 instead of 250.
Other Example
Fact Table: Transaction table
Material
M1
M1

Price
100 (yesterdays )
150 (todays)

As we know that behavior of fact table is attitude then

price will become100+150= 250 instead of 150.

Non-cumulative key figures:

** So there are some key figure which are not cumulative
in nature and not add up transaction table

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DOT

STOCKS

07/09

1000

08/09

500

Non-cumulative = last figury

Types of Master Data.
It is categorized based on how we represent the data in
the data base.
*purely based on representation and not on behavior or
etc.
Master data can be represented in three ways in BI
Attributes
Text
Hierarchy
Attributes: whenever we represent master data in such
a way that if all other info objects are entirely depending
on primary key info object then this is called as attribute
type of representation.

CNO
C1
C2

NAME

Primary Key
on CNO

ADR

CITY

all other info objects are dependent

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So name, address, and cities are attributes of Customer

No.
Text:
Steps of modeling
1. Identify the no of info object is going to be
BI.
2. Identify each info object as what type it
created.
3. Identify what type of data we need to be
E.g. Master or transaction data
4. Identify what types of master data we
extract.

created in
has to be
extracted.
need

to