Column


Column metrics:

  • Cardinality: column cardinality (number of unique values of a column)
  • Data Size: bytes for all the compressed data in segments and partitions. It does not include dictionary and column hierarchies.
  • Columns Hierarchies Size: bytes of automatically generated hierarchies for columns (used by MDX).
  • Columns Total Size: bytes of all the structures related to a column (sum of Data Size, Dictionary Size, and Columns Hierarchies Size).
  • Dictionary Size: bytes of dictionary structures.
  • Table Size: bytes of the table of the column (sum of Columns Total Size of all the columns plus User Hierarchies Size and Relationships Size of the table).
  • Table Size %: ratio of Columns Total Size vs. Table Size
  • Database Size %: ratio of Table Size vs. Database Size (sum of Table Size of all the tables).
  • Segments #: number of segments.
  • Partitions #: number of partitions.
  • Columns #: number of columns (always 1 for a single column).
  • Encoding_: encoding type of the column (HASH/VALUE).
Last update: Oct 13, 2024