what is fact table?

Answer Posted / 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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