Adding new attributes to a dimension

Facts or Dimension Attributes?

My company is currently building a data warehouse and I have a design issue that I am not sure how to address. In general, our business is selling an asset, such as the stock of a corporation, with a certain number of shares and a value. The value of th

User Defined Dimension Attributes

I have a business requirement that is somewhat stretching my modelling skills. The application is a highly sensitive one so Ill describe the problem using a Sales Datamart template. There are 7 plus fact tables, 1 is updated monthly, the rest

Conformed Dimension Partial Set of Attributes

Hi Just looking for some confirmation that a dimension with partial attributes might still be considered conformed. For eample A dimension of batch ProdBatch PK BatchID Batch Name Product ID Product Name ... at an invoice Fact table

attributes depending on more than 1 dimension (2 dimensions)

suppose you have - a discount code attribute - a status attribute which depend on the combination of the dimension customer & the dimension product. You want to be able to relate these attributes to a fact table invoice details. What are the

Multi-valued dimension with distinct attributes

In the health care data analysis DW, the grain of one of my fact tables is the episode of care. How can I include procedure codes performed on an episode ? if I create a multi-valued dimension for it and used bridge tables to model this, it will end up

Flexiblity To Add Attributes To A Dimension And Not Process The Whole Cube/s

Hello, We are in the process of designing a DW for Games and have run into a business problem : Business users want to add attributes to a dimension and decide its level in the hierarchy on the fly. The new attributes should be availabe in reports

Multi valued dimension attributes, weighting factor and cognos

Hi, we have several attributes in our product and customer dimension which might by multi valued. We modelled these as multi valued dimension attributes using bridge tables and weighting factors therein. Can anybody reference a best practice

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

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

Supplier Dimension to include Customers & Employees

We are in the process of finalising Dimensions /Facts to be used in Datawarehouse. Already finalised separate dimensions (eg Customer,Supplier,Employee) to handle requirements of Sales,Purchace and Human resourses. During designing Accounts Payable Fact

Adding the signature automatically

We should make it so the members dont have to manually click "Always attach my signature" under preferences. Like if the member adds a signature, and doesnt click that under preferences, it wont show up. But is there a way that if the member add

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

Idea on adding NON-ANIME/MANGA/GAME girls into this game

I have decided to post a topic that people can vote to add non-A/M/VG girls into this game or keep it traditional. I recommend that along with voting that you also put any further ideas/suggestions into this topic. If the majority vote yes then I will