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duplicating fields on both dimension and fact table.
Hans63 and johnherman thank you both so much for your responses. The fact table in question contains loan balance information -- the grain is 1 record per loan per month. The large dimension in question is a loan attribute dimension and contains 1 record per loan. Hans63, I misspoke when I...- ngthompson
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duplicating fields on both dimension and fact table.
Hi all, Is it a bad idea to have the same field on both a dimension and fact table? Here's my scenario: I have about 10 descriptive numeric fields that reside on a dimension table. While the fields are numeric they are truly descriptive and rarely change and so they are dimension attributes...- ngthompson
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