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Re: Counting propositions

From: Laconic2 <laconic2_at_comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:09:33 -0400
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"Dawn M. Wolthuis" <dwolt_at_tincat-group.com> wrote in



> I suspect most designers would suggest that if you have the information on

> which the aggregate is based, then you put that into a base relation and

> aggregate from the granular data.  But there are so many exceptions to

this


> in actual use.





You might want to look over Kimball's book on warehousing.  He writes a bit
on "choosing the granularity".  It's fairly crucial in MDDB design.
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