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Question:  What is the flow of loading data into fact & dimensional tables? 



Answer: Fact table - Table with Collection of Foreign Keys corresponding to the Primary Keys in Dimensional table. Consists of fields with numeric values.
Dimension table - Table with Unique Primary Key.

Load - Data should be first loaded into dimensional table. Based on the primary key values in dimensional table, the data should be loaded into Fact table.



May 05, 2007 08:07:57 #2
 sriram   Member Since: Visitor    Total Comments: N/A 

RE: What is the flow of loading data into fact & d...
 
When does ODS come in to picture ?
I guess its like this
                                    _____Datawarehouse_______
                                   l                                                  l
Source-->Stg-->ODS--l                                                  l-------->Datamart
                                   l_____Fact________________ l
     

 

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