What are Fact tables and Dimension Tables?

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Dimension table is nothing but a table which contains detailed description about the data except any values...

Fact table mainly contains the facts nothing but the values that is related to the data in the dimension table and by using the primary key in dimension table and the foreign key in the fact table we will map the dimensional table and the fact table

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