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What is meant by Aggregate Factable?
Factable having aggregated calculations like sum, avg, sum(sal)+sum(comm),
these are Aggregated Factable



Cheers
Padhu



  
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January 04, 2008 03:45:52   #1  
ThomasB Member Since: January 2008   Contribution: 4    

RE: What is meant by Aggregate Factable?
An aggregate fact table stores information that has been aggregated, or summarized from a detail fact table.  Aggregate fact table ares useful in improving query performance. 

Often an aggregate fact table can be maintained through the use of materialized views, which, under certain databases, can automagically be substituted for the detailed fact table if appropriate in resolving a query.

 
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