How to handle a Type I or II dimension with a snowflaked customer s...

Addresses in Customer Dimension

As part of an Orders dimensional model, I am attempting to design the Customer Dimension table. The customers have multiple sold-to addresses and multiple ship-to addresses. While the OLTP allows any Order to have any combination of sold-to and ship-to

Customer Dimension

I am trying to model a Customer Dimension with Educational and Employment details and I want some advice on how to model this scenario A Customer can have several levels of Education like schooling, college, university, training (one to many realtionship

SCD Type 2 dimension and fact table being the same table

I am designing a dimensional model for employee data in a data warehouse. Right now I only register the basic information about the employee, like job title, department, language, FTE, etc. I have chosen to use an SCD Type 2 dimension since I want to keep

Kimball or not Kimball type 2 dimension (sk as primary key)

We're using Oracle and I received the following (see below) from our architect about why we shouldn't create a new SK for every type 2 change. i.e. use a combination of date and sk as the primary key. Is this correct. Will it affect the creation of

Customer Dimension with Unlimited Metadata

Im currently attempting to define a customer dimension that has a fixed set of fields as well as an unlimited number of user-defined fields. The user-defined fields can be of various data types defined by the user. For example, a user may define a fiel

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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

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

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

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Data Vault v's Dimensional Model

Seems to be a lot of interest over at LinkedIn around the DataVault model. I wondered what the thoughts were about it. When would you use it v's a Dimensional Model or even a 3NF for a data warehouse. more info here:

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