Friday, 21 March 2014

Rapidly Changing Dimensions

A dimension attribute that changes frequently is a rapidly changing attribute. If you don’t need to track the changes, the rapidly changing attribute is no problem, but if you do need to track the changes, using a standard slowly changing dimension technique can result in a huge inflation of the size of the dimension. One solution is to move the attribute to its own dimension, with a separate foreign key in the fact table. This new dimension is called a rapidly changing dimension.


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