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fact table
- A single child table in a data warehouse containing potentially repetitive
information, surrounded by parent tables (dimension tables) that are
used to provide keyed retrievals of unique rows from the child table;
- The main table in a star schema containing metrics used for aggregations
and codes that are linked to dimension tables, used to access descriptive
information for the codes.
fat client
File DSN
- in ODBC, a file level data source name.
flat file
- a file structure where data items are stored line by line in a two-
dimensional array.
foreign key
FTP
- File Transfer Protocol; a client/server protocol that allows a user
on one computer to transfer files to and from another computer over
a TCP/IP network.
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