Data Modeler EDW - responsibilities

makeing a stand for star schema design

Hi, I am new to a financial company and I was asked to model two new sources of data in the existing mortgage data mart (not too sure if you could actually call it a datamart after seeing the design), basically I was asked to create detail information

Need for a dimensional modeling tool?

I'd like to hear opinions from members of this group about the need for a modeling tool that's more oriented towards dimensional models. Most of us use Erwin or a similar modeling tool, which is designed for general E/R modeling (to be honest, Erwin also

SCD 2 Audit / Metadata Columns

What are the standard audit columns / meta data columns that you will create in a SCD 2 Dimension table. potentially we will get more than one data feed from the same vendor for any given day and we need to track the versions / historical changes to

Data Warehouse for survey data

Hi All, Working with a company which uses Salesforce.com heavily. They have a large number of custom fields, and great volatility in them - frequently adding and deleting them when they cease being relevant (They collect survey data for their clients).

SOA and Data Warehousing

Hello everyone.... I need your help here. I am working on some DW related roadmaps. I am stuck on role SOA(Service Oriented Architecture) is going to play in Data Warehousing ETL in- particular and BI in-general. Your comments on above mentioned are

Data Warehouse with high data availability

When a data warehouse is being updated by periodical ETL load, there could be significant performance impact on the end users' reports while the underlying tables are touched. The data becomes volatile and the query results could be different between

Data Warehousing Vendors (Manufacturing)

Dear Sir or Madam We are a local company located in Syria, specialized in Industrial Confectionary Development (Food; Biscuit, Chocolate and Juice) The company seeks to find consultants/ vendors in order to initiate a data warehouseing project to be

Defining technical requirements for a datawarehouse, an existing one at that

I have no experience doing requirements documentation for a data warehouse, and am hoping an experienced practitioner or two can provide some practical lessons from documenting a data warehouse. To add an extra twist, the data warehouse is already in

Staging Activities

What are the common staging activities that the Kimball method recognizes? Traditionally I have used staging databases to 1) Decouple from the source-to-Data Mart for restartability 2) Consolidate multiple sources and source formats into a single

Request of information: Italian softwarehouse for federated Data Warehouse

Hello, I work for an Italian financial Company that needs to reorganize the current reporting system (mainly based on Business Objects), which is made of many Data Warehouses and Datamarts in Oracle and SAP/BI. I'm interested in a federated solution

Kirby's Epic Yarn!

So I got this today! Everybody with a soul enjoys some Kirby every now and then. This si Kirby's first console platformer game since Kirby 64 way back in 2000, I think it was. Time flies, eh? So here is what Sparky thinks of it: First off, Toys R' Us i

New Release Media Companion gen2 3.148

Just a small update on 3.143 New feature for Movies, support for <sortorder> tags. The field is below the Movie title, by default it is the same as the title, but xbmc will list movies alphabetically according to what is in this tag. You ca

Reasons to use a 3NF design over a Dimensional Model design for an EDW - Discussion

I've been dimensional modelling for well over 10 years, and strongly held the opinon that only a dimensional model would work for an EDW, however i'm now begining to think that there are certain requirements that lead to a 3NF design for an 'Enterprise