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Asked: 2026-06-06T09:00:49+00:00

The two most important fields, that are everywhere in our warehouse, are the UserAccountKey

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The two most important fields, that are everywhere in our warehouse, are the UserAccountKey and the DateKey.

  • DateKey is (int, not null)
  • UserAccountKey is (int, not null)

Are these the correct data type?

The WH was created in 2006 so type Date wasn’t an option, although we are now running 2008-R2 so it is now an option for the next iteration of the WH. It’s a well established WH with multiple cubes built from it and a whole reporting system. Additional question to the above is when the WH was created would the architect have been better having the DateKey as type Char(8) rather than INT?

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  1. Editorial Team

    There’s actually a data type especially for dates. I’d change the DateKey type from int to date.

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