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What is a level of Granularity of a fact table

  
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May 14, 2005 21:07:20   #1  
Nirav        

RE: What is a level of Granularity of a fact table
Level of granularity means level of detail that you put into the fact table in a data warehouse. For example: Based on design you can decide to put the sales data in each transaction. Now, level of granularity would mean what detail are you willing to put for each transactional fact. Product sales with respect to each minute or you want to aggregate it upto minute and put that data.
 
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June 29, 2005 06:39:24   #2  
Santanu Patra        

RE: What is a level of Granularity of a fact table
It also means that we can have (for example) data agregated for a year for a given product as well as the data can be drilled down to Monthly, weekl and daily basis...teh lowest level is known as the grain. going down to details is Granularity
 
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Answered by Satish on 2005-04-29 08:20:29: The Aggreation or calculated value colums will go to Fac Tablw and details information will go to diamensional table. 
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