Large Fact Table and Maintaining Periodic Snapshot: Practice

Updating Periodic Snapshot Fact Tables

What are the best practices for maintaining periodic snapshot fact tables if the atomic data that created them is modified? We have a couple periodic snapshot tables that capture new inventory and new revenue at the end of every month. Sometimes the

How to Track SCD Type 2 for Accumlating or Periodic Snapshot

Hi, I am looking to create a Periodic Snapshot fact and Accumulating snapshot fact for Backlog of orders and order completion. I tried searching in this forum as to how to model this scenario SCD type 2, but unable to find any. If I have to carry over

Variable period data in a single periodic snapshot fact table

I have to load account information into a periodic snapshot table which is at a day level. I have three different sources that provide the interest rates and balances information. Two of those sources(A and B) process interest rates and balances only on

Source for Accumulating Snapshot Fact table

I have a question about accumulating snapshots and I was hoping someone could shed some light on the subject. Does Kimball give any guidance anywhere (books, online, etc.) as to whether one should build the supporting transactional fact tables that

Muliple currencies for periodic snapshot fact table

We are designing a periodic snapshot fact table that will collect the cost of various tasks, on a monthly basis. The user is an international company, so many of the tasks are expressed in the currency of the country where the work will take place. They

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

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

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

MH Forum Help - How to take a "snapshot" or "screen shot"

How to take a "snapshot" or "screen shot" by revvinon To take a snapshot of your computer screen you need to bring up the image you want to capture on your computer monitor/screen. Say I want a picture of this post I am doing

100 reasons why Madeleine was not abducted

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Sneak Peek - AOC Breeze

The AOC Breeze is a 8 inch tablet running Google's Android OS. Whilst the price tag might classify the Breeze as a budget segment tablet, its list of features says otherwise. With a USB2.0 port, Micro SDcard reader, 4GB internal memory, and WiFi b/g, this

Bridge Table and Customer Hierarchy

Does anyone know of a good detailed reference that discusses populating and maintaining customer hierarchy type bridge tables? The only decent resource I've found is the "The Data Warehouse ETL Tool Kit", but it only briefly shows an example on