ETL for Accumulating Snapshot

Accumulating Snap Shot Challenge

Hi, I'm working for a large Internet Service Provider (ISP) and have a DW modelling challenge which I hope people can help me out with. Their nature of business includes as a fact recording as an accumulating daily snapshot real time partition basic

Modeling Question - Accumulating Snapshot vs. Event Transactions

I have a business process that has 6 distinct steps from start to conclusion for each instance of the process, we'll call it a case. Each case has two employees assigned to it, 1 owner and 1 co-owner. The owner and co-owner each have different

Accumulating Snapshot that acts like a SCD

I'm creating a model of our help desk ticket tracking system, and I'm not sure how to model this. We need to do a snapshot of the data because the transactional system will make overwriting updates. It's accumulating because the ticket has a lifecycle

Accumulating snapshot with SCD?

Is it common to update dimension keys within an accumulating snapshot fact table if it contains some slowly changing dimensions? Or is good practice to leave the keys alone and only use a more current key for new rows? My inclination is to leave the

Updating Periodic Snapshot Fact Tables

What are the best practices for maintaining periodic snapshot fact tables if the atomic data that created them is modified? We have a couple periodic snapshot tables that capture new inventory and new revenue at the end of every month. Sometimes the

Montly Snapshot views with transactional Fact table w/SCD2

I am a new at working with Dimensional Database design. I am struggling with something that probley is real easy to do, but just can't find documentation that will explain it. I want to create a monthly snapshot view of my transactional Fact table with

MH Forum Help - How to take a "snapshot" or "screen shot"

How to take a "snapshot" or "screen shot" by revvinon To take a snapshot of your computer screen you need to bring up the image you want to capture on your computer monitor/screen. Say I want a picture of this post I am doing

AiShuo Snapshot

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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

Conformed Dimension for Transaction Fact and Accumulating Snapshot Fact Table

I'm working on a new warehouse application for reporting against our IT Project database. I want to create both a transaction fact table and an accumulating snapshot fact table. The project database (source) consists of multiple normalized tables to

Fact table type

Basic questions about fact table type in kimball methodologies. Would appreciate if someone could explain 1)Transactional fact table type This is the transaction event captured from source OLTP system. Fact table in this case has all the keys instead

How to Track SCD Type 2 for Accumlating or Periodic Snapshot

Hi, I am looking to create a Periodic Snapshot fact and Accumulating snapshot fact for Backlog of orders and order completion. I tried searching in this forum as to how to model this scenario SCD type 2, but unable to find any. If I have to carry over