Help on Setting logical Levels in Fact tables and on Dimension tables

Hi all
Can any body provide any blogs or any king of material on what exactly is levelling .
Like after creating the Dimensional hierarchies we need to set the logical levels for the LTS of fact tabels ri8 .So what is the difference between setting logical levels to fact tabels and also Setting levelling on Dimension tables .
Any kind of help is appreciated
Thanks
Xavier.
Edited by: Xavier on Aug 4, 2011 10:50 AM

I have read these blogs ,but what my question is
Setting the logical levels in LTS of Fact tables i understood .
But we can also set the logical levels for dimensions also ri8 .I didn't understand why do we set the logical levels for dimensions .Is there any reason why we go with the levelling at dimensions
Thanks
Xavier
Edited by: Xavier on Aug 4, 2011 2:03 PM
Edited by: Xavier on Aug 4, 2011 2:32 PM

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