Data Warehouse with high data availability

Model available time per day in timesheet data warehouse: fact or dimension or neither?

Hi I am new to data warehousing and related subjects and as a first project I am busy analyzing our timesheet data. I would like some design ideas for the following problem: I need to compare each consultants weekly (and monthly and annual) utilization,

Data Warehouse for survey data

Hi All, Working with a company which uses Salesforce.com heavily. They have a large number of custom fields, and great volatility in them - frequently adding and deleting them when they cease being relevant (They collect survey data for their clients).

Data Marts, Conformed dimensions and Data Warehouse

Hello, Can you please assist me in understanding the following. I am new to data warehouse. I'm using microsoft products to build my enterprise DW/BI 1. Do I build data marts for my enterprise DW/BI or do I iteratively build a data warehouse? I

SOA and Data Warehousing

Hello everyone.... I need your help here. I am working on some DW related roadmaps. I am stuck on role SOA(Service Oriented Architecture) is going to play in Data Warehousing ETL in- particular and BI in-general. Your comments on above mentioned are

Data Warehouse Purge Strategy - HELP

I'm looking at the best way to implement a purge strategy in a dimensional model. The reason to purge is that no personal data can be kept after 4 years, but the users would still want to see counts/facts by no identifying data. For example i couldn't

Defining technical requirements for a datawarehouse, an existing one at that

I have no experience doing requirements documentation for a data warehouse, and am hoping an experienced practitioner or two can provide some practical lessons from documenting a data warehouse. To add an extra twist, the data warehouse is already in

Request of information: Italian softwarehouse for federated Data Warehouse

Hello, I work for an Italian financial Company that needs to reorganize the current reporting system (mainly based on Business Objects), which is made of many Data Warehouses and Datamarts in Oracle and SAP/BI. I'm interested in a federated solution

Staging Activities

What are the common staging activities that the Kimball method recognizes? Traditionally I have used staging databases to 1) Decouple from the source-to-Data Mart for restartability 2) Consolidate multiple sources and source formats into a single

Data Warehousing Vendors (Manufacturing)

Dear Sir or Madam We are a local company located in Syria, specialized in Industrial Confectionary Development (Food; Biscuit, Chocolate and Juice) The company seeks to find consultants/ vendors in order to initiate a data warehouseing project to be

Audit Dimension Help

Hello all. I'm at the stage now where im building the audit dimension for my warehouse. I am having a little trouble figuring out a few things though. How do you aggregate the data from the error event fact table into the audit dimension? Some records

Breaking Down NA3

Now that NA3 has been out for a while, I thought it would be good to explain how I have come to understand how the "metagame" works for this game. Coming in, it was pretty easy to try & approach the game like it was an extension of NA2.

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

Data Mining

I'm requesting that folks pitch in and give me their results from bosses. What I'm hoping to accomplish is first of all a verification of preexisting drop rates already determined for the facebook version. Second I'd like to build a proper gear/unit/fp