Conformed Dimension for Transaction Fact and Accumulating Snapshot ...

Source for Accumulating Snapshot Fact table

I have a question about accumulating snapshots and I was hoping someone could shed some light on the subject. Does Kimball give any guidance anywhere (books, online, etc.) as to whether one should build the supporting transactional fact tables that

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

Subscription as an Accumulating Snapshot Fact or a Dimension?

I am designing a data mart for a subscription based service (my first data modelling effort). Each customer can have multiple accounts and each account can have multiple subscriptions. I have added a Sales Fact table and a Monthly Subscription Snaphot

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

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

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

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

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

Combination of SCD2, partial snowflake, Effective and end dates in fact table

We are creating dataware housing for multitanant based systems for HR module. Requirement ?Able to report on historical data for any given data time. Active employees headcount till given date. (as of that day) Onhire and termination based on perticula

100 reasons why Madeleine was not abducted

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Dimension with two hierarchies

I need to design a dimension with two hierarchies 1. Location -> Building -> Room -> Cabin 2. Location ->Building I need the hierarchy 1 to be referenced in one FACT table and hierarchy 2 in other FACT. But my ETL tool allows only the dimension ke

Volume and Weight in Same Fact Table

Is it appropriate to include two facts that are not of the same type? In my example, I may need to have both Volume (Gallons) and Weight (Pounds) in the same fact table. I am building a DW around products that we recycle, these products can be Oil or

Conformed Dimension for Transaction Fact and Accumulating Snapshot Fact Table