Guidelines for FACT Table Design for High-Transaction Volume and High # of Measures ...

kminboston at 22h44
13
Nov
2009
Guidelines for FACT Table Design for High-Transaction Volume and High # of Measures ...

Hi All -

This inquiry could actually be two questions, but the requirement is really presentation of row-wise high volume transactional data in a column-wise (columnar) FACT table.

Here is a sample transactional data set:

Interval Date Time Unit ID
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