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| ====== Glossary ====== | ====== Glossary ====== | ||
| ===== F ===== | ===== F ===== | ||
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| - | ===== fact table ===== | + | ===== 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. | |
| - | * 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. | + | |
| ===== File DSN ===== | ===== File DSN ===== | ||
| + | * in ODBC, a file level data source name. | ||
| - | * 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. | |
| - | ===== flat file ===== | + | |
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| - | * a file structure where data items are stored line by line in a two- dimensional array. | + | |
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| - | ===== foreign key ===== | + | |
| - | * See child key | + | ===== Foreign key ===== |
| + | * See child key | ||
| ===== Full Text Index ===== | ===== Full Text Index ===== | ||
| - | ====== Quick Links ====== | + | {{page>:bottom_add&nofooter&noeditbtn}} |
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