How to design a one to many relationship

dianaantova at 21h15
11
May
2009
How to design a one to many relationship

I have a student quarterly registration fact table. Every student has academic programs (majors) associated with him/her and each student can have up to 5 of them. And each major can start and end at different times and has multiple parameters including graduation information. My fact table will have these dimensions:

Time, Quarter, student, registration parameters, student programs, majors, etc.

How do I model the
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