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Does it belong in the stage tables or fact tables?

If I have a fact table with a "counter" fact, for example a customer places an order, but then goes back and changes parts of that order any number of times, I want to store how many times the customer changed his/her order. The grain of the

fact table as a dimension

Hi I'm presently modeling a data mart and I would like to use a fact table as a dimension for another fact table. Is it something doable and efficient or is there a better way to do that? if yes should i just create a surrogate key and link both

Fact Table Indexing Strategy

Please explain the indexing strategy which is in use in your organisation for fact tables in your current database(oracle, sybase, db2) Specify volume as the indexing strategy may be based upon the volume of data. Is there a well laid out strategy

Fact table with non-numeric measure

I have a transactional fact table containing results of inspections. The results are non-numeric, but do represent a measurement, that is inspection result (like "pass", "fail", "pass with infraction", "failure with

Loading Fact table

Hi, I have following tables FACT, A_DIM, B_DIM. How do I update relationship between a_key and b_key in the FACT table when new record arrives in TYPE2 a_dim dimension? Below is simple create scrip to illustrate what I mean. create table fact (a_key

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

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

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

CJSC Inteco Orders GE Jenbacher Gen-Sets For Cement Factory

CJSC Inteco has selected GE’s Jenbacher technology to power its new production line in the reconstructed Verhnebakanskiy Cement Plant in Novorossiysk, Russia. The new 2.3 million-tons-per-year production line will enter commercial operation in

100 reasons why Madeleine was not abducted

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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

Table View disscusion

I couldn't find if this was being discussed elsewhere but i thought i would start a thread to discuss the things we would like to see in the table view. I know it's still a work in progress but i thought i would put up a few requests that Billy may or may