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I need help to design dimension model. Detail of Dimension are as following: Dimension : Student, School Fact : Grade 1. Class_Year 2. School 3. Area 4. City Analysis Requirement are to drill up /down by above given hierarchy there is : M:1

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

use of degenerate dimension to physically join two logically related fact tables

I am looking for a sanity check on a design decision. Here is the scenario: The business domain is insurance, specifically life and annuity. I have two fact tables - factPolicyTransaction and factCommissionTransaction. Policy transactions,

Joining facts through conforming dimensions

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Hi, I apologize in advance if you lose the will to live with my question or if you think it is a stupid one but I am very know to BI with limited SQL knowledge, I have be tasked with developing a BI solution which on the face of it seems small scale

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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

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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