Joining facts through conforming dimensions

Conforming Dimensions - Standardising, De-duplicating and Suvivorship

Hi, I'm currently reading the DW ETL toolkit, which seems to have some excellent ideas. However, as it doesn't come with any downloads (e.g example SSIS packages) - I'm struggling to understand a few things. If anyone can answer the following it would

Joining Type II Dimension Hierarchy directly to Fact versus through a Dimension table

Given I have 3 tables, Workforce Event Fact, Department Dimension (Type II SCD), and a Department Hierarchy (Type II SCD), and assuming the DEPTIDs in the Department Dimension table are reflected in a BASEDEPTID field in the Dept Dimension hierarchy table

two facts that relate via degenerate dimension

Hi, I have a order line fact which look like this: Order Line Fact ------------- Order Line Key (SK) Order Line number (DD) Order Number (DD) Some measure (fact) Now some time later I have another fact which would reference the Order Number

Conformed Dimension Processing Multiple Data Marts

Rookie question. We have 8 conformed dimensions and we are on our 4th data mart using some of these 8 conformed dimensions. We build the conformed dimensions once every night because the client wants to complete full refresh only. The client has

Dimensions Directly Tied to Facts vs. Snowflaking

Hi all, Thanks in advance for your input on this. We are in the midst of a building out a portion of our data warehouse. The example here has to do with insurance data. Hopefully the discussion can be abstracted to a more generic modeling level. We

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

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How to manage Conformed dimensions

Hi, If I'm implementing data mart by data mart, I build a dimension for the first data mart. After a few months, I realize I can use that dimension for the second data mart as a conformed dimension. But it needs additional columns. How do you manage this

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