Database Glossary - H
More Database Terms And Definitions

Hierarchies

Describe organizational structures and logical parent-child relationships within the data (e.g. global corporation => country => region => district => market => individual store).

Historical Perspective

The amount of lag time occurring between the time something happens in any of a database warehouse’s data sources (i.e. a record is added or updated), and the time at which the results of that change are available in the data warehouse.