index_F

F

Fact tables, 22

choosing, 453

creating, 41–43

creating (OWB), 288–89

defined, 22

dimension table vs., 23

Easy Shopping Inc., 61–65

information, 22

joining with dimensions, 454

loading, 226

moving data from staging table to, 268–73

partitioned, 268

surrogate keys in, 224

Fast refresh, 152–57

defined, 152

example, 152–53

good performance, 154

materialized views and, 152

with partition maintenance operations, 154–57

situations, 160

See also Refreshing; Refresh operation

FCEXEC command, 444

FCSET command, 444

Filtered data, 174–76

Filters, 197–98, 201

Financial calculations, 430

FIRST function, 121

Folders

defined, 310

measure, 450

Forecasting, 430

defined, 430

OLAP DML for, 443–45

Full backups, 347

Functional dependencies, 162, 165