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MS Access Forum / Database Design / April 2005Fact Table
Hello, Please explain the usage of a "fact table" in an MS-Access database... Thank you, -- Charles L. Phillips Charles, I'm not sure this is a standard Access term. Where did you come accross it? Nikos > Hello, > Please explain the usage of a "fact table" in an MS-Access database... > > Thank you, > -- > Charles L. Phillips Hello, Sorry for the delay in my reply, but to answer your question(s), I was reading "Designing the Star Schema Database" (http://www.ciobriefings.com/whitepapers/StarSchema.asp), and "The Data Warehouse Toolkit (Ralph Kimball)... I wanted to apply some of the techniques I've read about to an application I am designing... Charles > Charles, > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > -- > > Charles L. Phillips hi Charles L. Phillips, Fact table is not specific to MS Access. This a dimensional modelling attribute. Regards, ---------------- Haris Rashid http://www.manage-systems.com --------------------------------------- > Hello, > Please explain the usage of a "fact table" in an MS-Access database... > > Thank you, > -- > Charles L. Phillips Hello, Sorry for the delay in my reply, but to answer your question(s), I was reading "Designing the Star Schema Database" (http://www.ciobriefings.com/whitepapers/StarSchema.asp), and "The Data Warehouse Toolkit (Ralph Kimball)... I wanted to apply some of the techniques I've read about to an application I am designing... Charles > Hello, > Please explain the usage of a "fact table" in an MS-Access database... > > Thank you, > -- > Charles L. Phillips |
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