DIMENSIONS

1. What is Dimension in Data warehouse?

In data warehouse, a dimension is a data element that contains detailed and meaningful
information about facts.

2. What are facts?

In data warehouse, a fact is a value or measurement, which represents a fact about the
managed entity or system.

3. What is Factless fact table?

As the name says, a fact table which does not contain any facts is called factless fact
table or junction table. It acts as a relation between 2 tables.

4. What is confirmed dimension?

A conformed dimension is a dimension table, which have the same meaning to the facts
of every fact table it is connected to.

5. What is main dimension?

It is a normal dimension table which is directly connected to fact table.

6. What is Recursive dimension?

It is a dimension table which has reference to itself.

7. What is Referenced dimension?

A dimension table that is not connected directly to a fact table is called referenced
dimension.