Dimension table with no business key?

Store Business Hours in Time Of Day dimension?

Hello, I am building my first DataWarehouse and I got stuck on how to handle the time of day and my business hours. I am trying to evaluate response times for support cases and I have multiple time zones with different business hours. I only need to

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

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

Employee Hierarchy Dimension Table

Hello All, I am trying to model a Hierarchical Table, I need some help on what is the best way to model this scenario I want to Flatten the Hierarchy Horizontally in the Dimension Table, I want to keep it as a SCD Type 1 Overwrite information The

Kimballs design Tip#51 - Time Dimension

This tip suggests that we can eliminate the minute dimension and have a full time stamp in the fact row.I need more clarification on how this could be implemented. For instance if I need a fact to be shown with 1/2 hour split down how could I do it withou

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

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

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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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

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Dimension loading sources

Hi all, It's about datawarehouse dimension loading : should i load dimension from a master data management referential or from the truth of my business application. In the first case, dimension will be cleaner than in the second case but it will not