what is fact table?

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what is fact table?..

Answer / 24/12/2007

it contains only measurable values or datas

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what is fact table?..

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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what is fact table?..

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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what is fact table?..

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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what is fact table?..

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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what is fact table?..

Answer / bhargavi

Fact table contains facts or measurements(numeric values)
of the business

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what is fact table?..

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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what is fact table?..

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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what is fact table?..

Answer / amit

fact table is collection of all facts in the dimension
facys is nothing but quantitative data

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