Glossary term
What is Fact table?
In Apex Flow Academy, "Fact table" means: A table that records events, such as one row per order line. It sits in the middle of a star. It is taught in Power BI: Build Dashboards People Actually Use. Related terms include Data type, Lookup table, Append and Key. Every Apex Flow Academy course lists the official sources it checked.
- 1 course teaches it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is Fact table?
A table that records events, such as one row per order line. It sits in the middle of a star.
Where is Fact table taught?
Fact table is defined in Power BI: Build Dashboards People Actually Use.
Which lessons cover Fact table?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- Power BI: Build Dashboards People Actually Use, lesson 3.1: Why Separate Tables: Facts and Lookups
Which terms are related to Fact table?
Next to Fact table in the course glossaries: Data type, Lookup table, Append, Key, Staging query, One-to-many relationship, Applied Steps and Star schema.
Data typeLookup tableAppendKeyStaging queryOne-to-many relationshipApplied StepsStar schema
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn Fact table?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at beginner level:
- Power BI: Build Dashboards People Actually Use: You have access to a Windows computer; no coding or database experience is needed.