Converting Snowflake to Star

Advantages Disadvantages of Star Vs. Snowflake in your DW Env. Has anyone switched from one to another & Why ?

Can anyone list the advantages and disadvantages of Star vs. Snowflake in your DW environement . And has anyone switched from one to another and why?

Snowflake or Star Schema?

Hi, I am doing some dimensional modelling for a "not for profit" Fundraising Company They solicit Funds from the WEB, Direct Mail and Phone Solitications, etc and all Transactions are stamped with the FundID. The legacy system has all

Confusion - star, snowflake, bridge table

Appreciate your expert comment on following: Entities: Quote, Trade, DIRequest, Order User, Customer, Trader, Sales or Marketer and Product - User is a user who is using the system or interfacing with the system. i.e. requesting quote or placing a

Employee compensation - Star or Snowflake?

I'm designing a data mart for employee compensation. The measures will include things such as salary and various bonuses. Most of the data marts I've designed so far have fallen rather gracefully into a star schema. For this one, however, I have

Large number of snowflake code tables per dimension

Ten(10) or so key dimensions(lets call them base dimensions) each has about 25 parent code tables in the 3rd normal operational source. Each code has a short and long description. In the multidimensional model If a fact table has say 3 base dimensions the

4 & 5 Star Words For Tender

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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

Blue Star Line

My Forum, Blue Star Line is based around the game Ship Simulator 2008. The main idea behind the forum is to make the simulator more realistic, by adding in the effect of being part of a company, like Blue Star Line. We have many divisions in our forum,

Converting Columns into Rows.

I have a requirement where I need to convert rows in columns. The data is quite huge there would be around 200 million records. The sample table contains only data for five months but in actual 12 months of data come in a single row and number of columns

How to handle a Type I or II dimension with a snowflaked customer sub dimension (kimball book page 337, 338)

Hello, Within Ralph his new book he describes recommanded situations for snowflaking a dimension. His example is a large customer (visitor) dimension. (page 337, 338 and figure 10-6). I find the artical good, but there is missing one part of this

King of the Hill

RIP to this great show. It really grinds my sprockets that it got canned... to make matters worse I heard the Clevland show is replacing its time slot if thats true the fox sundaynight lineup will be almost all Seth McFarlane shows which is kinda pointles

Bowling Techniques share it here

Medyo in ako sa bowling ngayun sino bang mga ka RL ang mahilig din sa bowling?

Star templates

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