Converting Great Plains SOP tables to fact rows

How long should -1 dummy records exist in fact tables?

Dear Kimball Group, we are using the Kimball BUS Architecture method with SQL Server 2005, SSIS, SSAS, ProClarity, PPS, and MOSS. I am at a clients site that is using Full Refresh process for building 3 data marts so far every night. We are trying to

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

Modelling question - Multiple fact tables with one to many relationships and querying from many fact tables

Its a new capital markets data warehouse in design stage. I have deal_deatils_fact - 1 row per deal with all measures at deal level - dealID (Degenerative DIemsnion - DD) deal_tranche_fact - 1 row per deal per tranche with all measures at the

Regarding Factless Fact Tables

Some time ago I was asked to build the BI platform for a road safety organization. The warehouse was built of three primary fact tables, each with a collection of associated dimensions. I am now trying to branch out into ETL and Warehouse design, and from

NULL Values in Fact Table

In an Accumulating Snapshot that has multiple dates, where we are revisiting the fact rows as additional events occur, should the foreign keys to the date dimension for dates that have not yet occurred be set to NULL or should they point to a

Converting Columns into Rows.

I have a requirement where I need to convert rows in columns. The data is quite huge there would be around 200 million records. The sample table contains only data for five months but in actual 12 months of data come in a single row and number of columns

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

Pictures during the course DW lifecycle in depth, White Plains, NY

Dear colleagues, The pictures from the class are available here --> http://picasaweb.google.com/andremauricio/DWLifecycleInDepthWhitePlainsNY# Best regards, Andre

Dimensional Model Vs Views as Structure for BOBJ Universe

I have a fairly complex data mart (multiple fact tables: 5 at the moment and several more coming; 4 shared dimensions across the 5 facts, 26 total dimensions and several bridge tables). I used standard best practices for building the Business Objects

The Character Thread

Alright, let's try out the RPG forum. I'll run a game (because I would end up being the only one who wants to anyway) Everyone who wants to play give me characters, and once I have enough I'll start a game over in the RPG:Do forum

Announcements and Sticky topics in seperate tables!

Yep, according to the topic /other-problems-f46/possible-t76511.htm it isn't possible to split global announcements and stickies in a seperate table. I'm suggesting for this to be possible! I hate it when the forums are so messed up! I'm sure the

elbow greatest hits... (the ultimate elbow album!!!!)

ok... youve gotta make an elbow album consisting of 12 songs, all ordered correctly so its like a proper album... heres my attempt... 1. ribcage 2. forget myself 3. grounds for divorce 4. leaders of the free world 5. powder blue 6. picky bugger