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Fact Table is the central table which has factual information. It contains numeric information and measures.
Lets say if you need to capture sales data then centrally we can have sales table(fact table) which contains numeric information and surrounding to it, we can have dimensions table like product dimensions, date dimensions, store dimensions.
So this central fact table will contacts numeric information like Prize_of_product, Qualntity and along with same we can have dimension foreign keys like product_id, store_id, date_id and so on.
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