What is the fact table?

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Posted On: Feb 22, 2018

 

Fact table is the centralized table in a star schema that’s why it is also called central table. Fact table mainly contains the facts nothing measurement (values)that is related to the data in the dimension table. it typically has two types of columns one contains facts(values) and another contains foreign keys to dimension tables. a composite key that is made by all of its foreign keys is acts as a primary key of a fact table.

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