Variable period data in a single periodic snapshot fact table

Updating Periodic Snapshot Fact Tables

What are the best practices for maintaining periodic snapshot fact tables if the atomic data that created them is modified? We have a couple periodic snapshot tables that capture new inventory and new revenue at the end of every month. Sometimes the

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

How to Track SCD Type 2 for Accumlating or Periodic Snapshot

Hi, I am looking to create a Periodic Snapshot fact and Accumulating snapshot fact for Backlog of orders and order completion. I tried searching in this forum as to how to model this scenario SCD type 2, but unable to find any. If I have to carry over

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

Periodic snapshots - what is better?

Apologize in advance for a lengthy but general query I hope there is an expert who has done this many times that can help me. We need to build a periodic snapshot table in our data warehouse. This is an example of a bank that needs to store account

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

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

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

Dimension Design with Multiple Data Sources (ORACLE and SQL Server)

Hi All. We have a client that is currently migrating from a legacy SQL Server (6.5) based ERP to Oracle e-Business Suite. The old legacy system was distributed in both application and database, however the application and database structure was (almost

Kirby's Epic Yarn!

So I got this today! Everybody with a soul enjoys some Kirby every now and then. This si Kirby's first console platformer game since Kirby 64 way back in 2000, I think it was. Time flies, eh? So here is what Sparky thinks of it: First off, Toys R' Us i

SINGLE PARENT (NASA MALAYO,INIWANAN,LUMISAN ANG PARTNER)

To all single parents out there,this one is for us. My wife is working abroad. Ako nanay/tatay ng 2 kids namin. Mahirap lalo na pag may karamdaman mga bata. Tiis -tiis lang lalo na pag tag-li**g.Avail sa mga contacts sa mtc or od.Hehehehee!

Banning members from the chatbox for a time period

Hi everyone, I have this idea,when your a moderator of a chatbox on a forum,the mod can use a code to ban a member for a certain time period,instead of banning them,and having to unban them. Example: Code:/ban/{time limit for the ban}