Stage Table for Fact Data

Does it belong in the stage tables or fact tables?

If I have a fact table with a "counter" fact, for example a customer places an order, but then goes back and changes parts of that order any number of times, I want to store how many times the customer changed his/her order. The grain of the

Initial stage tables from multiple sources?

I was somewhat confused while reading this: The DWH ETL Toolkit, On page 116, Chapter 4, Cleaning and Conforming, Assumptions, in the first bullet "...customer information from various sources initially can be staged in a table [. . .] whose

Duplicating a field in more than one fact table.

Question about dimensional modeling. Scenario: I have a dimension called: 1. Dim_Application And two fact tables: 1. Fact_ApplicationStatus 2. Fact_ApplicationConsolidation Now the Dim_Application consists all the applications

character data in a fact table?

I just changed companies. i was accustomed to pure star schemas with fact tables containing only foreign keys to dimension tables and number measures that could be aggregated (sum, average, min, max). At my new job, I find dims with foreign keys

Loading Data Aggregated to Date into Fact Table

I have following source table: Source Table ID App_Version Os_Version Date 9123305 2.5.2.60 Windows NT 5.1 2/15/2009 9123306 2.5.2.60 Windows NT 5.1 2/15/2009 9123307 2.5.2.60 Windows NT

Fact table with multiple date ?

Hi, I am modling a fact table for prisoners inscription in order to track historical changes. An admission is the hole stay comprise of one or many inscriptions usually separated by transferts between institutions. In the transactionnal system, it

Montly Snapshot views with transactional Fact table w/SCD2

I am a new at working with Dimensional Database design. I am struggling with something that probley is real easy to do, but just can't find documentation that will explain it. I want to create a monthly snapshot view of my transactional Fact table with

Transactional detail fact table w/complimentary snapshot table. How do the two play together?

Take a detail daily banking transaction table with standard credit and debit level transactions. I want to build the accompanying snapshot that would present the higher level rollups of these lower transactions: There are about 250 daily transaction

Combination of SCD2, partial snowflake, Effective and end dates in fact table

We are creating dataware housing for multitanant based systems for HR module. Requirement ?Able to report on historical data for any given data time. Active employees headcount till given date. (as of that day) Onhire and termination based on perticula

Audit Dimension Help

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

London O2 Arena - 28th March

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100 reasons why Madeleine was not abducted

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Volume and Weight in Same Fact Table

Is it appropriate to include two facts that are not of the same type? In my example, I may need to have both Volume (Gallons) and Weight (Pounds) in the same fact table. I am building a DW around products that we recycle, these products can be Oil or