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Link Table

What do we mean by Link Table ???? please explain from the basics????????

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kamalqlik
Partner - Specialist
Partner - Specialist

Hi Manish,

                   Link tables are generally used for linking the two table or the fact tables.

Let us go with an example..

As we know that when we are designing the datamodel synthetic keys and circular loop are common.

For fixing this problems we use the link table concept.

You can also use concatenation ,but it always not give the appropiate result.

Concatenation works well enough when we have all the fields same.


With the use of link tables, it’s possible to keep the facttables separated from each other. The advantage of this solution   for choosing this method is to keep the datamodel a logical one.

Hope this help you.

regards

Kamal

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kamalqlik
Partner - Specialist
Partner - Specialist

Hi Manish,

                   Link tables are generally used for linking the two table or the fact tables.

Let us go with an example..

As we know that when we are designing the datamodel synthetic keys and circular loop are common.

For fixing this problems we use the link table concept.

You can also use concatenation ,but it always not give the appropiate result.

Concatenation works well enough when we have all the fields same.


With the use of link tables, it’s possible to keep the facttables separated from each other. The advantage of this solution   for choosing this method is to keep the datamodel a logical one.

Hope this help you.

regards

Kamal

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Hi Kamal,

If you have any example file, please upload for better and ease of implementation.

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards,

Skumar