Types Of Facts And Dimensions In Data Warehouse

Tables in DWH

Dimensions:

Dimensions are attributes about facts.
They store textual description about business.
Dimensions are denormalized due to one to many relationships

Ex: Store, Product, Employee, Customers

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Facts:

Facts are the actual transactions or values being analyzed

They contain composite primary key where each attribute of a primary key is a foreign key to the dimension tables
A fact table contains the facts at the lowest level granularity

FACT:

Prod Id, Cust Id, Sales Date are Dimension Keys.
Quantity Sold, Amount Sold is Fact Measures/KPI’s
KPI stands for Key Performance Indicators

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Last updated: 03 Apr 2023

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