Expand my Community achievements bar.

Join us for the next Community Q&A Coffee Break on Tuesday April 23, 2024 with Eric Matisoff, Principal Evangelist, Analytics & Data Science, who will join us to discuss all the big news and announcements from Summit 2024!
SOLVED

When two segments are added in a report, is it resulting data displayed as 'AND' or 'OR'

Avatar

Level 1

When I add two or more segments by holding down the ctrl key on my keyboard on a data warehouse report, is the resulting data considering the segments as 'OR' or 'AND'. Segments are separated by commas in the report preview.  Please help!!

1 Accepted Solution

Avatar

Correct answer by
Level 2

Well everywhere it's treated as "AND" so I would expect that to be the case in Data Warehouse. Just try it out on a small sample: if your result set decreases when adding additional segments, it's AND, otherwise OR. I would be shocked if it's OR though.

View solution in original post

5 Replies

Avatar

Correct answer by
Level 2

Well everywhere it's treated as "AND" so I would expect that to be the case in Data Warehouse. Just try it out on a small sample: if your result set decreases when adding additional segments, it's AND, otherwise OR. I would be shocked if it's OR though.

Avatar

Employee Advisor

Hi Rashmi,

It is as Lee said, when more than one Segment is selected, the operator acting in between is AND.

-Hyder

Avatar

Level 1

Hi Lee and Hyder -

Per Lee's suggestion, I just ran a sample report and it seems like the answer to my question is - OR;

I have 2 segments, segment 1 - excludes internal IP addresses; segment 2 - excludes internal user emails;.  The report that I want is a list of users that don't have internal IP address OR do not have internal emails. That is the result that I got. Can you please verify that same happens when you run a report in data warehouse? Thanks! Remember: I am building the report using tools ---> Data warehouse and adding both those segments from the available segments.

Avatar

Level 1

Hi Hyder -

Thanks for the documentation link; can you please verify/confirm that it is behaving in the same way that is documented because I'm getting the opposite results =)

Thanks again!

*****

Per Lee's suggestion, I just ran a sample report and it seems like the answer to my question is - OR;

I have 2 segments, segment 1 - excludes internal IP addressessegment 2 - excludes internal user emails;.  The report that I want is a list of users that don't have internal IP address OR do not have internal emails. That is the result that I got. Can you please verify that same happens when you run a report in data warehouse? Thanks! Remember: I am building the report using tools ---> Data warehouse and adding both those segments from the available segments.

 

https://marketing.adobe.com/resources/help/en_US/analytics/segment/seg_compatibility.html

Avatar

Employee Advisor

HI Rashmi,

Can you share what your segments look like. 

A point to remember is that container exclusion and Does not equal/contain is not the same.

-Hyder