Accumulating Snapshot that acts like a SCD

Accumulating Snap Shot Challenge

Hi, I'm working for a large Internet Service Provider (ISP) and have a DW modelling challenge which I hope people can help me out with. Their nature of business includes as a fact recording as an accumulating daily snapshot real time partition basic

Modeling Question - Accumulating Snapshot vs. Event Transactions

I have a business process that has 6 distinct steps from start to conclusion for each instance of the process, we'll call it a case. Each case has two employees assigned to it, 1 owner and 1 co-owner. The owner and co-owner each have different

Accumulating snapshot with SCD?

Is it common to update dimension keys within an accumulating snapshot fact table if it contains some slowly changing dimensions? Or is good practice to leave the keys alone and only use a more current key for new rows? My inclination is to leave the

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

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

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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

MH Forum Help - How to take a "snapshot" or "screen shot"

How to take a "snapshot" or "screen shot" by revvinon To take a snapshot of your computer screen you need to bring up the image you want to capture on your computer monitor/screen. Say I want a picture of this post I am doing

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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

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

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

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