Preserving prior history for late arriving dimensions

Late Arriving Facts

Hello All, Need some inputs regarding handling of late arriving facts: I have a demographics related fact table that holds the following measures - Population_Count, Birth_Count, Death Count. The behaviour of the Population_Count is that it stores

Handling late changes to Type 2 attributes

Hi. I'm trying to find a good way to handle late changes to Type 2 attributes. Please note that I am not asking about early-arriving facts that could be handled with an inferred dimension member. Rather, I am interested in the situation where the dimensio

Large number of late arriving facts

I am loading a Star Schema from a data base that acts as the staging area. We are converting our source systems to a new transaction system. We are converting data to the new transaction systems in large chunks with conversion dates spread over 3 years.

Business keys in Fact. Is this accepted?

It is a data warehouse optimization project and a very basic data warehouse is in place. There are a couple of dimensions with only 2, 3 columns only (<30 rows) and where the Business key can be easily interpreted. Ex: Event_Type_DIM: this has 2

Updating a Fact Table

I currently working on an Accounting Datamart which the dims and facts are loaded daily. I have recently had a request to update the data after its been loaded. The best way for me to explain this is to give an example. The data is loaded daily, so

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Chapter 7 sanctions and resolutions...a history

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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

Username change history.

I think our forums should have a username change history, so that if someone's changes their username, its easier to track down who has been doing what. And an example, if someone has been not following the forum rules, and they change their username to

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

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