Is it good practice to have foreign keys in a datawarehouse (relationships)?

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Published on 2010-04-22T12:44:57Z Indexed on 2010/04/24 13:33 UTC
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I think the question is clear enough. Some of the columns in my datawarehouse table could have a relationship to a primary key. But is it good practice? It is denormalized, so it should never be deleted again (data in datawarehouse). Hope question is somewhat clear enough.

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