Montly Snapshot views with transactional Fact table w/SCD2

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

Transaction Fact design

hi I am faced with a problem designing a transaction fact in an investment firm. each transaction represents a trade the traders put in (buy,sale etc). The problem I am facing is: the metrics of a transaction change from one day to another day so a

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

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

Large Fact Table and Maintaining Periodic Snapshot: Practice

I would like some opinions with my approach here. I am trying to replace an overkill lift and load ETL process that basically replicated the entire universe of dataset every period instead of doing just Delta Load. In this delta approach, I have a stage

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

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

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

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

SSIS SCD Component

We are using (or attempting to use) the Kimball Method SSIS Slowly Changing Dimension Component for SSIS from Todd McDermid (http://kimballscd.codeplex.com/). We have run into a few issues and would appreciate some advice if anyone has used this SSIS

Your top Anime and Manga lists.

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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

100 reasons why Madeleine was not abducted

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