Attributes are other dimensional fields – such as a zip or postal code. You might also have attributes like colors, flavors, or sizes. They are not part of a hierarchy in that you can’t drill up or down into them.

Attributes represent a single type of information in a dimension. For example, quarter is an attribute in the time dimension.

You can use dimension attributes as part of your analysis to tease out more information—for example, if you were researching airline travel habits you could see on which days of the week most people travel for business travel, vacation travel, etc. Or, you can use them to find out which colors were most popular for a particular season or year or garment.