Dynamic reporting tool for a fact warehouse, a fact contained within the fact warehouse, and a method for refreshing the fact warehouse
OwnerJeff Williams, Matthew Hahnfeld +3inventors
InventorsJeff Williams, Matthew Hahnfeld, Benjamin Mouw, Paul Tjapkes, Eric Richter
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Abstract
A database for an enterprise includes a data warehouse and a fact warehouse. The fact warehouse contains facts determined at least in part from data contained within the data warehouse. A fact contained within the data warehouse includes information and a reference depth attribute. The reference depth attribute is indicative of the dependencies of the fact on other facts within the fact warehouse. A database tool is provided for creating facts. A fact set tool is also provided for creating summary screens for displaying the facts.
Claims3
A fact within a database comprising:
- information;
- and
- a reference depth attribute.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.