Purchased Industry BI Data Model

Statement Cycle versus MTD, Financial/Banking Industry

Banking industry reporting requirements often call for viewing monthly data both on a calendar month and on a statement cycle. What are some best modeling practices for dealing with a snapshot of MTD transactions and Statement-Cycle-to-Date transactions?

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).

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:

Dimensional models for K-12 education

Hello everyone, As a DBA I'm just starting out in the data warehousing field and I'm having difficulty locating dimensional model examples for education. The examples that I have come across pertain to sales, manufacturing, billing, etc and I'm looking

Rule based algorithm to convert an ER model to a dimensional model

I recently came across two white papers by Moody/Kortnik that show how to use a rule based algorithm to transform an ER model to a dimensional model. I have made the papers available on my

What is Porter’s Five Forces Model? How does it help in understanding the industry context in which the firm operates?

how to model an event log

I am trying to model the following event data: Field1 = event date, field2 = event code, field3 = location code, field4 = customer_id, fields5 to 8 are event code specific, ie.

2011 China (ShangHai) International Battery Industry Fair

[An Unmissable International Feast of Battery] Co-sponsored by Chinese Institute of Electronics, Guangdong Power Supply Association and Zhenwei Exhibition Group, the Third China (Shanghai) International Battery Industry Fair will be held in Shanghai

Guidelines About Industry Oriented Mini Project (B.Tech)

The objective of this document is to present the general guidelines for the writing up of a proper mini-project report. We were very confused as to what we had to do as this was only a mini project on whether we have to go to industry,scope of project

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

Next3 Work-in-progress

Well got to say this is really Electronic Reader out of the box, though it does have some hybrid features of a Tablet. I know what I was getting into. But no matter what I am welling to give a new startup company a try in this crowded Android Tablet marke

PLEASE HELP! I bricked mine..just got yesterday!

I was under the impression that this was basically the same as the Maylong m-150, so I attempted the firmware upgrade for the m150, but it gets to a point about the file system and errors out. Where can I get the factory FW? Thanks in advance!

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: