dimension tables gets corrupted

  • This is just an interview question i got from one of interviewer. for which I did not knew answer.

    Any insight on this welcome..

    If we have dimension tables loaded and used surrogate keys for processing. Now what happens is the we loaded fact table too. What happens if the dimension tables gets corrupted and we do not have any backup of the dimension tables. So will the fact table still funstional and will give us correct results. Is there any we can get out dimension tables back from the fact table (keep in mind there is surrogate key used).

    Do we need to rebuild the fact table by rebuilding the dimension table. Will it cost much time reuilding fact table. Is there any approach besides this.

    Please let me know....

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