(adjective: drill-down) a direct manipulation of an element wherein a user follows a relation from one concept to another, resulting in the rendering of one or more elements (see also: roll up)
to access increasingly detailed data or information, starting from a high level of a hierarchical database or information base Accés en mode descendant
Drilling down gives you more detail on one category within a level of a dimension For example, if the current level is "years" within the YEAR dimension, drilling down on one category (i e , 1996) will reveal the level of detail below that one category only Each column and row heading is a hyperlink to more detailed information about the category To drill down, simply click your mouse on the hyperlink you wish for more detail about
The ability to go down to the next level of detail in a set of data For instance, if youre looking at an expense figure for a division, you can drill down to the expenses for each department in the division
Used to indicate movement from a broader or more general folder to a less general (more specific) folder Suppose your C: drive contains a folder named ASI490, and within that folder are folders named Word Processing, Spreadsheets and Databases Within the Word Processing folder are files named Assn1 doc and Assn2 doc From My Computer, you might click on Drive C: , then "drill down" to the ASI490 folder, drill down further to the Word Processing folder, and finally click Assn2 doc It's similar to providing the DOS path to the file: C: \ASI490\Word Processing\Assn2 doc
is the process of navigating from a top-level view of, e g , overall sales down through the sales territories, down to the individual sales person level This is a more intuitive way to obtain information at the detail level
Drill Down refers to the process of disaggregating summary results along some dimension Disaggregation might be to an intermediate level or to an atomic level, the finest level recorded for the dimension Drilling "through the floor" to the entity level refers to finding the entities that were summarized in a cell at the atomic level
A term used to express what a surfer does as he or she goes further into a web site -- deeper into the back pages, deeper into data Make certain that when someone takes the time to "drill down" into your site that they come back with information worth digging for