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Post  dellsters Thu Apr 08, 2010 6:10 pm

Hi, If I have a dimension, such as the employee dimension, that needs to be used for more than one key in the fact table, would I create a view or a materialized view for the second dimension? Or is there a different approach?

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Post  ngalemmo Thu Apr 08, 2010 6:40 pm

Neither, really. You just have multiple FKs to the same table based on the role. When you query you assign an alias to each use of the table. Within a typical BI tool, you define those aliases for each use of the table.
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