what is fact table?
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Answer / gp
The table contain measurable data(facts) is called fact
table .
These facts defined three types : Additive
Non Additive
Semi additive facts
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Answer / m.sivakumar
The centralized in a star schema is called fact table.
fact table have two types of columns.
facts
foreign keys to dimension tables.
fact tables are three types
1)additive
2)non-additive
3)semi additive
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Answer / honey
A central table in a data warehouse schema that contains
numerical measures and keys relating facts to dimension
tables. Fact tables contain data that describes specific
events within a business, such as bank transactions or
product sales.
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Answer / p.suneetha roy
A central table in a data warehouse schema that contains
numerical measures and keys relating facts to dimension
tables as primary key present in Fact table for the
uniqueness and foriegn keys coming from dimension tables
referring to fact table. Fact tables contain texture data
and section.
There are 4 types of facts :
1)Additive
2)Non Additive
3)Semi additive facts
4)Factless fact.
Let me know if there are any more facts.
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Answer / bhargavi
Fact table contains facts or measurements(numeric values)
of the business
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Answer / suren
Fact table contains measurement of information
Factless table contians with out any measure.
1.Additive : Additive fact table contains the summarized
data.
2.Non Additive : Non Additive fact table contains without
additve data.it contains only detail data
3.SemidAdditive: Semi additive fact table contains both the
summarized data as well as detial data
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Answer / shyam
Dimension table contains the textual information to analyse
the business. It contains more number of column as compare
the less no. of rows.
There are the four types of dimention table in the
Datawarehousing.
1. Confirmed Dimension
2. Shared Dimension
3. Degenerated Dimension
4. Jun Dimension.
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Answer / amit
fact table is collection of all facts in the dimension
facys is nothing but quantitative data
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