Customer Dimension with Unlimited Metadata

khendricks at 19h04
01
Feb
2011
Customer Dimension with Unlimited Metadata

I’m currently attempting to define a customer dimension that has a fixed set of fields as well as an unlimited number of user-defined fields. The user-defined fields can be of various data types defined by the user. For example, a user may define a field called ‘Favorite Theme Park’ as a ‘string’ data type, or ‘Owns Time Share’ as a ‘boolean’. My first thought is to separate the fixed ones into their own dimension. However, I’m not sure w
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