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Resolver IIPossible Tip/Trick: Dynamic Date Dimension Table
I'm going to share the dynamic date dimension table I built, hopefully it is useful to someone! I named it DateTable for this tutorial, and my fact table FactTable. The table is built using the ...
faacq you understand the purpose correctly, but not the method. You're trying to create a relationship with a month column, which is incorrect. You're supposed to create a relationship between a date column in your fact table and the main date column in the date table. Then you could use the month column as a slicer.
You are right, using the date column I managed to establish the relation. When I try to slice my data It seems that the date table does not have any effect. My fact table has a column with "Month Year" info, but still I'm not able to slice my data with the columns available in the date table.