Audit dimension for a dimension?

Audit Dimensions in SQL/SSIS 2008

I've read The Micorosoft Data Warehouse Toolkit and would like to implement the audit dimension and logging set up described in that book. However, I believe the download from the book's site is for SSIS 2005. Has anyone published an updated framework for

Dimension Hierarchy - Facts by various levels

Hello, I am working on a new project (with Oracle OBIEE) where most data needs to be seen by a terminal(game or cahsier). The terminals are located in different venues in various cities and states. Some terminals may just be at a city or a state level

Need to join dimension tables

Hi, I have a requirement to build canned reports in WEBI XI R3. The requirements are such that most of the reports are on the dimension tables and needs dimension tables to be joined. From a starschema prospective we cannot join dimension tables. My

Dimension Tables as lookup tables

Recently one of the developers at my organization approached me and asked that I take a table that exists in one of our source systems and put it in the DW, so that he could populate a drop down and validate data for the web app he was developing. ie,

How to Handle Data that serves as both a dimension and attributes of another dimension

I have a invoicing warehouse with two fact tables. First is an invoice header fact table which reports on invoice totals and includes a surrogate key for a stat code that was assigned to the invoice. The grain is one row per invoice. Next is a part

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

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

How to handle a Type I or II dimension with a snowflaked customer sub dimension (kimball book page 337, 338)

Hello, Within Ralph his new book he describes recommanded situations for snowflaking a dimension. His example is a large customer (visitor) dimension. (page 337, 338 and figure 10-6). I find the artical good, but there is missing one part of this

Overlapping Dates in a dimension

Hi, I am wondering if someone could advise me on how to deal with this design problem. I have a promotion dimension keyed to a sales fact table. Initially, we thought that only one promotion could be active at one time for a sale, but it is actually th

Dimension with two hierarchies

I need to design a dimension with two hierarchies 1. Location -> Building -> Room -> Cabin 2. Location ->Building I need the hierarchy 1 to be referenced in one FACT table and hierarchy 2 in other FACT. But my ETL tool allows only the dimension ke

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

Date Dimension

Hi All, I understood Kimball way of implementation Date Dimension table. In a way, the lowest granularity date represent each record, with the following month, quarter and year attribute. However, what happen if the lowest grain of certain fact are at