Tuesday, December 28, 2010

What is Role Playing dimension?

Role Playing dimension is a dimension, it can play different roles in a fact table depending on the context.

For example: Date dimension

Date dimension can be used for ordered date, shipping date, shipment date, and invoice date, etc., in an order line fact.

In the data warehouse, you will have a single dimension table for the dates. You will have multiple warehouse foreign key from the fact table to teh same dimension.

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