"slice and dice" sind typische Operationen innerhalb der mehrdimensionalen OLAP Analysen.

• slice:   Isolierung einzelner Schichten, schichtenweise Durchdringung eines Datenwürfels.
• dice :   Rotation eines Datenwürfels.

Mit "Drill Down / Drill Up" wird der Navigationsprozeß beim OLAP bezeichnet.

• Drill Down: Es ermöglicht dem Endanwender, innerhalb eines Datensatzes (z.B. Gesamtumsatz Deutschland) per Mausklick kleinere Detailebenen zu öffnen (z.B. hinunter zu produkt-, verkäufer- oder regions-bezogenen Umsätzen).
• Drill Up bewegt der Endnutzer sich in die entgegengesetzte Richtung.

(aus: Mucksch/Behme: Das Data Warehouse-Kozept, S. 396-400)

• DRILL DOWN/UP
  

  Drilling down or up is a specific analytical technique whereby the user navigates among levels of data ranging from the most summarized (up) to the most detailed (down). The drilling paths may be defined by the hierarchies within dimensions or other relationships that may be dynamic within or between dimensions. For example, when viewing sales data for North America, a drill-down operation in the Region dimension would then display Canada, the eastern United States and the Western United States. A further drill- down on Canada might display Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, etc.



• SLICE
  

  A slice is a subset of a multi-dimensional array corresponding to a single value for one or more members of the dimensions not in the subset. For example, if the member Actuals is selected from the Scenario dimension, then the sub-cube of all the remaining dimensions is the slice that is specified. The data omitted from this slice would be any data associated with the non-selected members of the Scenario dimension, for example Budget, Variance, Forecast, etc. From an end user perspective, the term slice most often refers to a two- dimensional page selected from the cube.



• SLICE AND DICE
  

  The user-initiated process of navigating by calling for page displays interactively, through the specification of slices via rotations and drill down/up.