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what are the various attributes in time dimension, If this dimension has to consider only date of birth of a citizen of a country?

  
Total Answers and Comments: 1 Last Update: March 16, 2007     Asked by: naag 
  
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RE: what are the various attributes in time dimension,...
  • Date and time (If datetime data type is not supported then you have to have hour/min/sec on a seperate columns)
  • Week
  • Month
  • Quarter
  • Year

 
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