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Re: Dimension objects

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:28:57 -0700
Message-ID: <1151008143.965016@bubbleator.drizzle.com>


Mladen Gogala wrote:
> What, exactly, are dimension objects? What is their function? One cannot
> select directly from them, it seems that they just are here just to
> describe star schema or snowflake schema. My question is: what Oracle
> component reads those description?

CBO (Cost Based Optimizer)

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Daniel A. Morgan
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Received on Thu Jun 22 2006 - 15:28:57 CDT

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