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Hello Experts,
I have four fact tables and all having different keys and columns. I want to make all four fact tables as single fact table as to achieve star model.
Here which method I have to choose.
Is concatenating all four fact tables or by using link table.
Please guide me on this issue.
Regards,
Kumar
If that's truly what I want to do - you would have to join your tables or concatenate them. It all depends on what columns you have in each table - If you want to bring new columns, you will have to use join (or keep, with an additional prefix left/right/inner/outer depending what's the data you want to have at the end of this transformation process). If you only want to bring a small number of columns - create mapping tables and ApplyMap() in the destination table.
However - concatenate will bring across new rows. If the structure between two (or more tables) is exactly the same - QV will concatenate them naturally, during the load script. But you mentioned that you already have 4 facts tables, which suggest they aren't the same and the columns contain different information (or possibly - they are called differently as they may be coming from various sources). You can of course force QV to concatenate two tables by adding Concatenate(destination_table_name).
It's very hard to advise what exactly you must do at this point - without knowledge how your tables look like or knowing which one should be use as the final facts table (considering the size, information that holds, etc...) it's a difficult task.
As few people before me mentioned already - is there a special reason you want to perform this operation? If the performance isn't an issue for you, I'm not sure what exactly you are trying to achieve.
I have to build a star schema with four fact tables and four dimensions.
Why? Is somebody going to spank you if you don't? Or do you have a technical reason you have to do this?