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Best practices when combining multiple fact tables?

  • April 1, 2020
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Is it better to combine multiple fact tables with a primary key or with a merge operation?
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    Keep them separate.
    Pick one of them as your main table and extend that with the columns of the other table with the https://www.vertica.com/docs/9.3.x/HTML/Content/Authoring/AnalyzingData/FlattenedTables/FlattenedTables.htm feature.

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