Thursday, October 25, 2012

Define Normalization, Fact Tables, Foreign Key, Identity column, Seeding


Define Normalization, Fact Tables, Foreign Key, Identity column, Seeding

 Normalization is a breaking down of complex tables into more tables to reduce redundancy and for performance.
Fact Tables= Fact tables is a measurable tables of all the dimension tables. So It is attached to all dimension tables. All the numeric data are stored in fact tables.
Foreign Key= It is constraint used for data integrity and relationship with the primary table
Identity column= It is a column where all values are unique like a primary key. For example Identity(1,1) means , it starts from 1 and increased by 1 in every row

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