Re: Star Schema -Datawarehousing

Joe, try referencing the two tables by using an employee number as the foreign key in those tables.
David Whitmore

Joe Bala wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We're trying to design a star schema with a fact table and
> dimensions. We have employee fact table and we have a list of the the
> employees interests. If we include interests as a dimension we have
> two many combinations (there are 8 interests and therfore 2^8
> combinations of interests). So another idea was to include the
> interests as part of the fact table (measures).. but I don't think it's
> a good idea to hardcode interests in the fact table.
>
> thx,
>
> j
>
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