attribute
Add information to a database dimension. A dimension
containing product details may include the names of the product managers as an
attribute. Or, if the product names and codes in the dimension are not familiar
to users or customers, ’friendly’ names might be used as attributes. Attributes
are created in the OLAP database. Application Studio contains some intrinsic
attributes. You cannot write back values to intrinsic attributes. In Analysis
Services, OLAP attributes are called element properties.