which table we load first in DW. dimension or fact? why?

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which table we load first in DW. dimension or fact? why?..

Answer / asish mohapatra

We should first load dimension table then the fact table .

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which table we load first in DW. dimension or fact? why?..

Answer / mahesh225

Dimension tables will be loaded first.

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which table we load first in DW. dimension or fact? why?..

Answer / krishna

First we load dimension and next fact. Without dimension table there is no meaning for fact table.

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which table we load first in DW. dimension or fact? why?..

Answer / adnan

Fact table has foreign keys referencing the primary key of dimension.
Logically Foreign key is a subset of primary or unique key. That's why , we
need to load dimension tables first and then to load fact tables.

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