Dimensional Data Modeling - Fact
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A fact is a row in a fact table and represents an events.
A fact table represents a serie of facts.
The term fact comes from a joint research conducted by General Mills and Darmouth Univeristy in the 1960s.
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Architecture
- In an event driven architecture, the events are facts.
- In a database shared architecture, the tables store only the last version of the facts (ie mostly in dimensional/entity table)