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Question:  What are Dimensions and various types of Dimensions?

Answer: set of level properties that describe a specific aspect of a business, used for analyzing the factual measures of one or more cubes, which use that dimension. Egs. Geography, time, customer and product.


May 05, 2006 00:48:14 #1
 md.rahman   Member Since: Visitor    Total Comments: N/A 
RE: What are Dimensions and various types of Dimension...
 

Dimensions are classified to 3 types.

  1.SCD TYPE 1(Slowly Changing Dimension): which contains current data.

  2.SCD TYPE 2(Slowly Changing Dimension): which contains current data,+complete  historical data.

  3.SCD TYPE 3(Slowly Changing Dimension): which contains current data.
     

 

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