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On page 110 of "The Data Warehouse Toolkit (2nd Edition)" it talks about basically creating a view for each "role" the time table might represent. Seems like you would end up with an excessive number of views. The 2nd paragraph state

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I have a bunch of date dimensions, such as BaselineDate, TargetDate, etc... I created role-playing views over my Date dimension for each of the different types of dates. But each fact row will have a StartDateID and a FinishDateID for each (like

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