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Post  Oleole Fri Apr 20, 2012 1:03 pm

Beeing Friday today, is it time for party dimension ?

For an insurance company Is it ok to have a party dimension including:
- all kinds of customers - Private and organisation customers
- employees

and including as attributes:
- dwelling
- contact person (employee)
- customer score

this will be a type 2 SCD, or is this really a fact table ?
Any con's against this solution ?
Comments will be appreciated.

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Post  BoxesAndLines Fri Apr 20, 2012 1:10 pm

I'll bring the chips and beer.

It is always ok to have a party dimension.

The party dimension is a dimension not a fact.

I like to keep addresses separate from the party dimension. I can leverage it other places independent of the party living/working there. I've been known to even snowflake the party dimension to the address dimension. It essentially becomes my household identifier.
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