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Path Hierarchy

Path hierarchies allow us to define a hierarchy with a single column. In this column the different levels are concatenated using a separator. This can be used for example to convert a Java/C# class path into a hierarchical structure.

Example

Let's use the same simple dimension data we used in our former examples. We define our basic geography structure with a couple of countries.

        name
        Europe.France
        America.United States
        America.Canada
        America.Mexico
    

1) After creating the new table, defining the [Geography] dimension is just a few steps away:

OLAP Parent/Child hierarchy

2) And this is all we need to define our simple [Geography] dimension. We can now check the results on the dimension browser:

OLAP Parent/Child hierarchy

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