niha.736 (6/12/2013)
Hi Paul Thanks For the reply,If you can provide some more information on this, It will help me to understand better.
1. will degenerate dimension contain only one attribute ?
as u mentioned in ur example ( check number attribute)
2. I have created cube(SSAS 2012), while creating it, it prompts me to create a dimension based on my fact table . can we say this as degenerate dimension which I mentioned as requirement in my above post.
3. what could be the dimension key for this degenerate dimension ?
Is that check number attribute or some other fact key?
In short, since a degenerate dimension is NOT a dimension table but just a column on a fact table that has the look and feeling of a dimension - like a check number - then, yes, it has a single attribute... stored on the fact table!
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Pablo (Paul) Berzukov
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