Loading Fact Table with Type 2 Slowly Changing Dimension

Type 3 Slowly Changing Dimension

I am trying to find a best example / scenario where a type 3 scd would make more sense than a type 2. In my understanding type 3 can easily be derived from type 2. If anybody has used type 3 dimension instead of type 2, please let me know the scenario an

Unsure about relationship with Slowly Changing dimensions.

Hi Sorry datawarehouse newbie question! I have many years experience with relational databases but my head is not yet around the dimensional model. I am not sure how to maintain the relationship between Fact and Type 2 Dimension. i.e if a new row is

Loading Data Aggregated to Date into Fact Table

I have following source table: Source Table ID App_Version Os_Version Date 9123305 2.5.2.60 Windows NT 5.1 2/15/2009 9123306 2.5.2.60 Windows NT 5.1 2/15/2009 9123307 2.5.2.60 Windows NT

Slowly Changing Dimension table

Hello, I have scenario where we are creating a Dimension Table and Fact Table from the same Source Table which contains both descriptive and numeric data I want to model the Dimension table as a Slowly changing Dimension Type 2 (create new

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

Transactional detail fact table w/complimentary snapshot table. How do the two play together?

Take a detail daily banking transaction table with standard credit and debit level transactions. I want to build the accompanying snapshot that would present the higher level rollups of these lower transactions: There are about 250 daily transaction

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

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

Fact table with multiple date ?

Hi, I am modling a fact table for prisoners inscription in order to track historical changes. An admission is the hole stay comprise of one or many inscriptions usually separated by transferts between institutions. In the transactionnal system, it

SSIS SCD Component

We are using (or attempting to use) the Kimball Method SSIS Slowly Changing Dimension Component for SSIS from Todd McDermid (http://kimballscd.codeplex.com/). We have run into a few issues and would appreciate some advice if anyone has used this SSIS

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