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Drill-down

Drill-down lets you move from a summary to the underlying detail, for example from country to city to customer.

Written by Reflective Data experts · updated Oct 5, 2026

It supports exploration without building a new report each time. It works best on a well-modelled dataset with consistent dimensions.

Good BI tools let users drill with a click and keep filters in place.

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