SCD Type 2 dimension and fact table being the same table

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

Loading Fact Table with Type 2 Slowly Changing Dimension

I'm new to data warehousing .. sorry if this is a basic question. I have a type 2 slowly changing dimension already loaded and now I want to load a fact table. At least, I think it should be a fact table. A lot of the entities in the dimension table

Joining Type II Dimension Hierarchy directly to Fact versus through a Dimension table

Given I have 3 tables, Workforce Event Fact, Department Dimension (Type II SCD), and a Department Hierarchy (Type II SCD), and assuming the DEPTIDs in the Department Dimension table are reflected in a BASEDEPTID field in the Dept Dimension hierarchy table

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

dimension attribute denormalisation in fact table

Hello, in our data warehouse, we have a fact table containing about 100 million rows per month joined to a customer dimension containing about 10 million customers. The customer dimension contains 30 attributes. Two of these attributes are very

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

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

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

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

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