What is the difference between Junk and Confirmed Dimention?
where can be used htat one in Informatica?

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What is the difference between Junk and Confirmed Dimention? where can be used htat one in Informat..

Answer / prabhu

Junk dimension contains the data which are currently not
useful. we have to keep these data for feature analysis
purpose.
Whereas Confirm dimentions are common for multiple fact
table.

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What is the difference between Junk and Confirmed Dimention? where can be used htat one in Informat..

Answer / sarvesh

merge two or more dimensional tables which are having the
low cardinality colomns into a single table is known
as "junk dimensional tables,
two or more fcat tables can be shared with a single
dimensional table is known as "conformed dimension"

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What is the difference between Junk and Confirmed Dimention? where can be used htat one in Informat..

Answer / chaitanya

An interesting use for a junk dimension is to capture the context of a specific transaction. While our
common, conformed dimensions contain the key dimensional attributes of interest, there are likely
attributes about the transaction that are not known until the transaction is processed.

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