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drill down

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To move from summary information to the detailed data that created it. For example, adding totals from all the orders for a year creates gross sales for the year. Drilling down would identify the types of products that were most popular. The ability to drill down can be performed in a single application or by using a combination of applications. See DSS, pivot table and multidimensional views.


(database)drill down - (Or "drill-down analysis") To examine data in greater detail, especially, in reporting, to interactively select some item from a summary and display the data that contributed to that item, broken down by some extra parameter.

For example, when viewing your company's total worldwide sales for each month of this year, you might drill down to see October's sales by country, then again to see October's sales in Afghanistan by product and so on.

This kind of analysis is often supported by some kind of data warehouse.

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Crews will then begin excavation of the building's slab and drill down into the bedrock to install footings.
Executive Dashboards are real-time snapshots of key indicators such as census, AR days, and Qls, with the ability to drill down to source data and create on-the-fly reports and graphs.
Managers can drill down to get the details on each of these individual performance components and have the essential tools for accurate, informed decision-making.
 
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