What is degenerate dimension table?



What is degenerate dimension table?..

Answer / Bahoran Singh

"A degenerate dimension table is a dimension table with only one column, usually the primary key of a fact table. It is used when there is no need for additional attributes or categories to be associated with the fact data."

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