Dimensional update but no new facts

omurchuc at 11h22
06
Mar
2009
Dimensional update but no new facts

Folks,

In a typical Star schema using Type 2 SCD's,

My question is:
When a change happens to the dimension but no new facts are created.
Should a new fact record be created? (Essentially a duplicate of the previous record but with the new time FK)

The reason being that if you want to view the dimensional data with the time dimension (e.g. model status for 21 of Jan 2009) using no facts there
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