can a fact table contains textual information

Answer Posted / rajesh

ANS: We can put textual information but not useful, actually
in FACT table, in contains numeric value for calculating
measurement like sales, profit/loss, revenue, date/time,
production, stock etc. in Fact table, it contains foreign
keys for maintaining relationships and measures for
analyzing the business as week/ month/quarter/year etc.

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