What is the importance of Dimension in the cognos.
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Answer / shree uday
Dimension is a major subject area through which we can
analysis our business.
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Answer / fmq
with out Dimension and Fact cannot make a relations between
tables it could not be use for joins and retrive the data
as a form of reports in cognos
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Answer / palzkumar
Depends, how you design your model in FMW, incase, thru
RDBMS, then there is no question of Dimension.
Incase, thru dimensional modeling, then its shud join to
Fact Table with 1:n realationship.
rgds,
palz
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