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Posted by Ed Murphy on 12/24/07 20:33
jefftyzzer wrote:
> I suppose that when you then join the fact to the time dimension, you
> could apply a COALESCE to the date column, e.g.,
> COALESCE(time_dim.date, 'Date not Available').
Don't you have to CAST or CONVERT time_dim.date to CHAR or VARCHAR
first, lest it try and fail to convert 'Date not Available' to
DATETIME instead?
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