Metric Aliases

Metrics, MicroStrategy,

This is a little “don’t” that I stumbled upon recently.

Don’t create metric aliases that contain operators such as “-“, “+”, and so long. Although MicroStrategy allows you to do so, the database application (Oracle, Teradata,…) will nag you about expecting “something between – and ,” and of course, the report will stop executing.

About Sorin Suciu

Sorin is a MicroStrategy specialist, experienced in Retail, Telecom and Customer Operations. Blogging is where his passion for writing met his geek nature and decided they should do some crazy things together. Though not a funny guy himself, he is obsessed with arguably funny stuff, such as Terry Pratchett, Monty Python, Douglas Adams and live parrots.


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One thought on “Metric Aliases”

  1. Great tip sorin. For readers: This is about the Metric Alias in metric editor (Metric Column Option) not the Report editor (Report Data Option).

    Also, the Metric column alias can’t be more than 16 characters and one can play with the setting of underlying fact’s column alias for same effect.

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