Within version 8 of sas it would be possible to add dimenstions to your mddb without recalculating the whole mddb. The data for this new dimension will be stored in the mddb. Within version 6, you can add a hierarchy-definition to your metabase without recalculating the mddb. This dimension (when used) will be calculated from the best available crossing (maybe Nway)

Greetings, Bas

-----Original Message----- From: Deepak Mathur [mailto:Deepak.Mathur@ORANGE.CO.IN] Sent: donderdag 15 juni 2000 9:43 To: SAS-L@AKH-WIEN.AC.AT Subject: MDDB - Computed Dimensions ??

Hi all,

I have an existing MDDB with 8-9 dimensions. Now I require another dimension which can be derived from values in an existing dimension.

My question: Is there any way I can compute this new dimension at runtime and have it displayed ? I do not wish to change the MDDB code etc and want a quick way to do this.... The corresponding measures should get appropriately summed up etc

Thanks, Deepak.

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