Interview Question #10: Placing Hierarchies in Report Template in MicroStrategy

Question

Which of the following about placing hierarchies in the report template is true?

A. You can only place one hierarchy in the report template.

B. The report level is always resolved to the lowest level attribute in the hierarchy.

C. You can use user hierarchies as well as the System Hierarchy on the template.

D. For the SQL Engine to resolve the level of the report, one or more attributes from the same hierarchy should be referenced in the report filter.

E. Both B and D.

 

 

 

 

 

Answer

D. For the SQL Engine to resolve the level of the report, one or more attributes from the same hierarchy should be referenced in the report filter.

 

Why the others are false

A. You can only place one hierarchy in the report template. You can place any number on the report.

B. The report level is always resolved to the lowest level attribute in the hierarchy. Since the hierarchy contains several attributes, the SQL Engine does not automatically know which attribute to place on the result set.

C. You can use user hierarchies as well as the System Hierarchy on the template. Cannot use System Hierarchy.

E. Both B and D. B is False.

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