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Author Makes an age dimension sense ?
Andi

2005-11-01, 9:23 am

Hi,

I am new in designing a data warehouse. Does it makes sense to have a
dimension table called AGE where maybe numbers from 10 - 100 are in it?
Maybe I should callculate the age in my query ?! I think it is OK to
have a TIME dimension wich is responisble for the birthday, and other
dates in the fact table.

thanks for every hint

MC

2005-11-03, 8:23 pm

I usually calculate age in the warehouse (dim table or atribute). My clients
simply didnt need 'birthday' dimension, they only wanted to know age of the
people involved...


MC


"Andi" <andreas. schneider@skillworks
.de> wrote in message
news:1130851976.246076.278580@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> I am new in designing a data warehouse. Does it makes sense to have a
> dimension table called AGE where maybe numbers from 10 - 100 are in it?
> Maybe I should callculate the age in my query ?! I think it is OK to
> have a TIME dimension wich is responisble for the birthday, and other
> dates in the fact table.
>
> thanks for every hint
>



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