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I have a fact table that has a column with dates loaded from an MS Access source. The thing is, some of the values are NULL and the SSAS won’t let me refer my DATE dimension to it.
Is it better to solve it at the SSIS stage or is there some solution at the SSAS?
Thank you very much for you help.
Best practice is not to have any NULL key (i.e. Dimension key) values in a Fact table.
Instead, create a MAX date in the Date dimension table (or an ‘UnknownValue’, -1 for instance) and key to that.