Dimension Hierarchy - Facts by various levels

Facts at different levels of hierarchy

Let's say I have an empoyee dimension consisting of the usual attributes describing a person, but also these two: Department and Company. Let's also say I have budget numbers for the three levels (Employee, Department, and Company). I would think tha

Conformance of Dimension for facts aggregated at different levels

I am a newbie to Data Modeling. I am modeling a warehouse for Global reporting solution for a business operating in 3 countries. 2 business processes involved are "Sales" and "shipment Expenses" The input is sumarized excel files

Joining Type II Dimension Hierarchy directly to Fact versus through a Dimension table

Given I have 3 tables, Workforce Event Fact, Department Dimension (Type II SCD), and a Department Hierarchy (Type II SCD), and assuming the DEPTIDs in the Department Dimension table are reflected in a BASEDEPTID field in the Dept Dimension hierarchy table

Hierarchy within single dimension or two dimensions

I am unsure of the best way to model a specific business scenario and was looking for some input. I will explain it in terms of a common example, the Product dimension. Let's say that every "product" is assigned to a specific

Using a dimension in multiple fact tables with different grain and support SCD

Hello users, i've a question about using a dimension in fact tables with different granularity and at the same time retain support for SCD. My scenario: I have one Dimension called Apartment. This Dimension cosists of the following related

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I've purchased the book "The Microsoft Data Warehouse Toolkit" and have reviewed it in order to build out a data warehouse solution I am currently designing. I am stuck in a spot that I don't seem to find any examples of , or am not abl

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Hello all. I'm at the stage now where im building the audit dimension for my warehouse. I am having a little trouble figuring out a few things though. How do you aggregate the data from the error event fact table into the audit dimension? Some records

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Hi I'm presently modeling a data mart and I would like to use a fact table as a dimension for another fact table. Is it something doable and efficient or is there a better way to do that? if yes should i just create a surrogate key and link both

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