Re: Design question

From: Matthias Hoys <anti_at_spam.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:53:38 +0100
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"Mladen Gogala" <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com> wrote in message news:gnesuk$mod$5_at_solani.org...
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:57:55 -0800, matthias.hoys wrote:
>
>> Some questions:
>> - is it better to put the Time as a separate dimension, or can we put it
>> as Date column in the Measurements table ?
>
> Ralph Kimball, in his phenomenal book "DW Toolkit" suggests a separate
> dimension. I did try it on several occasion and have never been sorry.
>
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Thanks for the book recommendation. I will see if I can order it.

Matthias Received on Tue Feb 17 2009 - 13:53:38 CST

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