Data Modeling Puzzle
Across
- 3. Structured information that defines and describes other physical data assets.
- 4. Data Vault table storing descriptive context and historic changes over time.
- 6. An artificial unique identifier with no business value used to join tables.
- 8. Data Vault table containing only unique business keys and loading metadata.
- 10. Data Vault table representing associations or transactions between business keys.
- 13. An intermediate table used to resolve many-to-many dimensional relationships.
- 14. Dimensional schema where out-of-core dimension tables are fully normalized.
- 16. A dependency where attribute A determines B, and B determines C.
- 17. The pathway tracking data from origin source to target presentation destination.
Down
- 1. The lowest level of detail represented by a single row in a fact table.
- 2. In lakehouses, the Bronze, Silver, and Gold structured data organization layers.
- 5. A dimension attribute stored directly in the fact table without a join key.
- 7. A satellite containing multiple active records per business key at one time.
- 9. A satellite tracking the active start and end dates of link relationships.
- 11. An insert-only satellite designed to track transaction history without end dates.
- 12. Dimensions that share exact identical meaning and values across different facts.
- 15. Table designed to optimize asynchronous satellite joins by tracking active keys.