Data Warehousing: Dimension Table (Definitions)

"A table in a data warehouse whose entries describe data in a fact table. Dimension tables present business entities." (Microsoft Corporation, "SQL Server 7.0 System Administration Training Kit", 1999)

"A table in a data warehouse whose entries describe data in a fact table. Dimension tables present business entities. A database object stored in a data warehouse containing information used to reference the data stored in a fact table." (Microsoft Corporation, "Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Data Warehouse Training Kit", 2000)

"The relational database table that contains information about each member of a dimension, such as its name, as well as other specific characteristics of each member." (Reed Jacobsen & Stacia Misner, "Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services Step by Step", 2006)

"A table in a star schema design that contains dimensional attributes and a surrogate key." (Christopher Adamson, "Mastering Data Warehouse Aggregates", 2006)

"A table that contains the data from which dimensions are created." (Jim Joseph, "Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Unleashed", 2009)

"In the dimensional data model, each dimension table contains the attributes of a single business dimension. Product, store, salesperson, and promotional campaign are examples of business dimensions along which business measurements or facts are analyzed." (Paulraj Ponniah, "Data Warehousing Fundamentals for IT Professionals", 2010)

"A table in a data warehouse whose entries describe data in a fact table." (SQL Server 2012 Glossary, "Microsoft", 2012)

"The representation of a dimension in a star schema. Each row in a dimension table represents all of the attributes for a particular member of the dimension. See also star join, star schema." (Sybase, "Open Server Server-Library/C Reference Manual", 2019)

"The smaller tables used in a data warehouse to denote the attributes of a particular dimension, such as time, location, customer characteristics, product characteristics, etc." (Toby J Teorey, ", Database Modeling and Design 4th Ed", 2010)