Need of aggregated dimension to use summary tables

Hi,
I have two fact tables workdetail and worksummary. Worksummary is aggregated to month in time dim and workdetail is at timedim day level.
Now i configured my business model with timedim and work detail table.( created a hirerchy for time dim (year-month-day)). Now i want to use worksummary tables, how do i include this in my business model. I know creating new Logical Source and mentioning levels.
My major doubt is do i need to create another physical table for Time-Month? or can i use same time dim physcial table to use with summary fact tables?

the answer to your question is YES, To use aggregated summary tables, we need to have aggregated dimensions. Other wise data will be redundant and will return incosistent values.
In your case if you use the same timedim-day level table with summary tables, data will be multiplied by 30 days beacuse of time-dim monthkey will be repeated in multiple rows.
simplest solution is create view from Time_Dim table, select distinct year,month,monthkey. this view returns only unique year-months. so each month will have only one row.
-> import view in your physical layer and create a join with summary fact table.
-> Include the month table(which is view) in logical time_dim as another source,mention the levels.
-> and include your fact table in logical fact table and mention the levels to month of time dim
this will work. Let me know if i am not clear. Also we can wait for other experts comments.
- Madan

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