title: What is Master Data?
body: <p>This is a terminology question in the context of business intelligence, ETL data integration, and data warehousing.</p>
  
  <p>I've always learned that the data warehouses have transactional "fact tables" which reference "dimension tables". However, some other people are using the term "master data". Does this have a different meaning in the context of ETL and data warehousing and is it equivalent to "dimension tables"?</p>