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kentyler
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‎06-03-2020 02:13 PM

Looking at AdventureWorksDW

has 2 fact tables, FactReseller and FactInternetSales, that are identical except for a couple of fields.

My inclination is to combine them with a "SaleType" column.

The way they are now everytime you want to calculate something against all sales you have to write a measure to add them up. Once they are combined every time you want to calculate something against one or the other you can just include the SaleType field in a matrix.

Anybody had any experience here ? What am I missing ?





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‎06-03-2020 03:18 PM

@kentyler I think combining makes sense and you filter what you want to see, it is similar to like seeing something by-product or year or month, and it is one of the other dimensions on which you slicer and dice the data. 



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‎06-03-2020 04:47 PM

Thanks

I really appreciate other people's thoughts on this





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