Multiple facts in a fact table

Multiple Fact Tables vs. Consolidated Fact Table

I am trying to put together the bus matrix (to identify the facts tables) for a government correctional agency and am debating between multiple facts for each event in the life cycle of an offender vs. fewer fact tables. I wanted to avoid joining multiple

Textual Facts in the fact table

Its a new financial 'capital markets' dimensional reporting model (for IPO - raise money for an issuer by issuing new equity common stock securities) that's in design stage. There are some textual attributes of the grain of several fact tables for which

Using a dimension in multiple fact tables with different grain and support SCD

Hello users, i've a question about using a dimension in fact tables with different granularity and at the same time retain support for SCD. My scenario: I have one Dimension called Apartment. This Dimension cosists of the following related

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

One Fact table having records at different granularity level

Hello, My question is just validation for an approach that we followed for one of our client requirements. Based on the requirement the FACT table should be constrcuted by the records from 2 Source table A and B. The structure of the table is as

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

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

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

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

Multiple Memberships IP Warning system.

Most sites have a ip scanner system on them that will flag up the members that have the same ip address and tell the admin's the ip and the names of the users. Right now the only way to see the ip and the ones that have more then one account is when th

100 reasons why Madeleine was not abducted

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Regarding Factless Fact Tables

Some time ago I was asked to build the BI platform for a road safety organization. The warehouse was built of three primary fact tables, each with a collection of associated dimensions. I am now trying to branch out into ETL and Warehouse design, and from