How to manage Conformed dimensions

Data Marts, Conformed dimensions and Data Warehouse

Hello, Can you please assist me in understanding the following. I am new to data warehouse. I'm using microsoft products to build my enterprise DW/BI 1. Do I build data marts for my enterprise DW/BI or do I iteratively build a data warehouse? I

Conformed Dimension Processing Multiple Data Marts

Rookie question. We have 8 conformed dimensions and we are on our 4th data mart using some of these 8 conformed dimensions. We build the conformed dimensions once every night because the client wants to complete full refresh only. The client has

Multivalued Dimension or Multiple facts w/conformed dimensions

I am trying to model for insurance industry, with data as follows: We have data at different levels: Policy level with related facts. ((Premium , face amount, mode etc) Policy Fund level (combination with related fact values.) Policy Rider level

Conformed Dimension for Transaction Fact and Accumulating Snapshot Fact Table

I'm working on a new warehouse application for reporting against our IT Project database. I want to create both a transaction fact table and an accumulating snapshot fact table. The project database (source) consists of multiple normalized tables to

Conformed Dimension Partial Set of Attributes

Hi Just looking for some confirmation that a dimension with partial attributes might still be considered conformed. For eample A dimension of batch ProdBatch PK BatchID Batch Name Product ID Product Name ... at an invoice Fact table

How to manage multiple languages

Hi there! I have been using Media Companion quite successfully to manage my movie collection. However, I am having some problems managing non-english movies. I have several Italian language movies (in a separate directory from the English movies). In

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Sparse dimensions, how to handle?

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

Flexiblity To Add Attributes To A Dimension And Not Process The Whole Cube/s

Hello, We are in the process of designing a DW for Games and have run into a business problem : Business users want to add attributes to a dimension and decide its level in the hierarchy on the fly. The new attributes should be availabe in reports

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Linking or Merging Similar dimensions from Different Source Systems

We've got a situation with the DW we're building where we have 2 seperate systems that we are wanting to bring the data together for cross analysis 1) The first system is the main operational system ie a contact management application that records

Bridge tables versus massive junk dimensions

I am designing a star schema to store information on hospital stays. This is my first real star schema and things are off to a good start. My fact table is hospital stays. I have a diagnosis dimension. There are multiple diagnoses per stay. Costs are

fact table as a dimension

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