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Migration to Dimensional Modeling - Testing

Hello, I migrated a relational database to dimensional modeling database. I need to test that all the information in the source system is there in the target system. One technique which can be used is... - to calculate the number of records in the

Modeling help on dimension with many boolean value

Hi I'm really stuck on how to model a user need/business need Basically, we are in the healthcare and we have a software that manage the work of the paramedics in ambulances. There is a table that store all standard informations about the work of

DIFFERENCE between Dimensional Modeling and Cube ?

Isnt cube part of Dimensional Modeling (Facts and Dimensions) ?

Normalized Data Store + Dimensional Modeling

Hi there Kimball forum, and welcome to my first topic :-), I just received my "Kimball's Data warehouse Toolkit Classics" on monday. Unfortunately I still can not find the hint, how to solve my design problem. We have a bit overcomplicated database

Dimensional model

Hey All In a Star schema, can a Fact table in one data mart be a Dimensional table in another data mart or can we connect two fact tables or what can we do if we need to connect a column (primary key) from one fact table to another fact table? Thank

Dimensional modeling on HospitalStay

a different question on The Data Warehouse Toolkit, 2nd Ed. The complete guide to Dimensional Modeling. In Chapter 13 page 265 "In a hospital stay situation, however, the diagnosis group probably should be unique to the patient because it is

2 sources using Dimensional Modeling Workbook

We are using Kimballs Generic Dimensional Modeling Workbook and it is really great! But now we have 2 sources to the same target and are not sure about how to document that. Anyone now about a best practice for how to document this in the Generic

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Sparse dimensions, how to handle?

I've purchased the book "The Microsoft Data Warehouse Toolkit" and have reviewed it in order to build out a data warehouse solution I am currently designing. I am stuck in a spot that I don't seem to find any examples of , or am not abl

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

Data Vault v's Dimensional Model

Seems to be a lot of interest over at LinkedIn around the DataVault model. I wondered what the thoughts were about it. When would you use it v's a Dimensional Model or even a 3NF for a data warehouse. more info here:

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Date Dimension

Hi All, I understood Kimball way of implementation Date Dimension table. In a way, the lowest granularity date represent each record, with the following month, quarter and year attribute. However, what happen if the lowest grain of certain fact are at