CEDStandards / CEDS-Data-Warehouse

Modeled for longitudinal storage and reporting of P-20W data, the Common Education Data Standards (CEDS) Data Warehouse implements star schema data warehouse normalization techniques for improved query performance.
https://github.com/CEDStandards/CEDS-Data-Warehouse
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Add default values to all junk dimension table columns to allow for the easy, consistent addition of new columns #38

Open aemnathanclinton opened 1 year ago

aemnathanclinton commented 1 year ago

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Author(s) Nathan Clinton

Authoring Organization(s) CEDS

Email Address nathan.clinton@aemcorp.com

Use Case Title Add default values to all junk dimension table columns to allow for the easy, consistent addition of new columns

Use Case Overview Adding new columns to tables can be difficult if the new columns a NOT NULL. Adding a default value constraint to these new columns solves this problem. To remain consistent, we should set all Junk dimension column defaults to 'MISSING'.

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