Alternative to logical table

Hi,
How to resolve the issue given below
dim1 --------<- fact ->------dim2
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▲ ▲
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|________dim3_______|
I want dim3 to be dimensional instead of fact ( which turns out to be fact after mapping shown above ). Is there any other alternative rather than creating logical table and joining dim1 , dim2, dim3 as single entity ?
Thanks
Suresh

Hi Suresh,
First of all we don't know how your business scenario is there...
I think your table has columns of measure and dimensions...
At that time, you better devide measure columns into fact table and dimensions as logical dimension table in BMP layer.
If not try this...
create any dummy logical table.. and dummy column...
make that column as key,
Now connect (complex join) this dim3 to dummy table (1 to N)...
So that now it would act as dimension rather than fact...
Thanks & Regards
Kishore Guggilla

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