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 Time Dimension With "None" Option

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drsloat
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Posted - 2008-05-06 : 16:50:38
I have a fact table that has a couple of different time values. There is a createtime which is my primary time dimension, but there is also an expiration time. Not all records have an expiration time, but I'd like to have this as a dimension, such that the rows that don't have an expiration time could be grouped as none or unknown.

Is it possible to configure this in the ErrorConfiguration section for the dimension? I keep getting errors on processing for missing key values.

drsloat
Starting Member

45 Posts

Posted - 2008-05-07 : 10:12:12
I got this to work. The missing piece was setting the KeyErrorLimit to -1 for the fact table with null dates. I'm now starting to think that this is not a very good design and that I should make some kind of None row in my dimension table.
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