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Hi,
I have read about dimension creation and i haven't found nothing about to use the "many-to-many" relation between levels from a dimension.
For example: I'm working with the geography dimension and i'm looking for classifying the countries (low level) into organizations (high level). The problem (??) is that some countries can be part of more than one organization. Ej: Organizations (NATO, EU) >> Countries. Spain is in the NATO and European Union (Spain has 2 parents).
Is this posible in a Data Workhousing a child have more than one parent?
If yes, How can i create the dimension table following the star schema?
Thank u very much for your help!!
(Excuses for my english)

Pedro,
Currently OWB only supports a star schema implementation. You can include multiple hierarchies in your dimension... taking into account that it will be a star schema (i.e. you may end up duplicating data).
OWB is working on a revamp of the dimensional model which would enable your solution. We hope to have this available by the end of this year. For now, a workaround could be to use relational models... but that does not create the dimension objects.
Mark.

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