Saturday, September 5, 2020

BI/DW Best Practice #5 - Consolidate entities while keep correct grain

We may sometime consolidate similar analysis in a fact table. It may reduce the total size, complexity and effort from such shared fact table. However, we should make sure that we don't violate the correct granularity of the fact table. 

Conforming fact tables in wrong granularity will lead to wrong results in analysis. Feel free to create a new fact table if they are in different grain. It is ok that we can have multiple fact tables in a subject area.

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