The best LP Rasen will ever finish
Lol, orlly? The game? Here's a hint: it's a portable RPG.

Start Schema vs Snow flake schema
In my organisation we are on a way to implement data warehouse and data mart for sale. we have one dimension City/District/Store. 1. Store name can be split/merge from one district to other in next quarter. 2. there is possibility of changing City nam

DATE OR DATE KEYS IN FACT TABLES
I've read different opinions about the usage of dates in fact tables. If a date is NEVER used to filter and only reported, what is the purpose of adding it as a date key instead of a plain date type? Aren't we wasting the resources to get to the date

When/How did you start vidding?
Title says it all, 'nuff said As for me, I'm not exactly sure HOW I started vidding... it seems like ages ago xD. But I'm certain, that I began vidding with Windows Movie Maker in 2005-2006. Wow, I was so excited with that crappy old program, that I

SET2/Q.1 a. Analyse the role of in-house researcher in marketing research.
Q.1 a. Analyse the role of in-house researcher in marketing research. [3 marks] b. Discuss the purpose of research report with its important characteristics and functions. [7 marks]

Inventory Snapshot - GMROI Calculation
We are developing a solution for our company. We currently have a sales cube and we are in the process of building an inventory cube. We are having a design problem in that we are not sure if we should include some of the measures which currently exist in

1 Dimension used multiple times in 1 fact table?
Hello, I have a dimension used to store several types of 'bands' like monthly income bands, available income bands, risk bands, settlement bands etc. If I leave out all the lineage columns this is what the dimension looks like: DimBandID BandType

SET1/Q.2 a. Outline the role of different types of retailers.
Q.2 a. Outline the role of different types of retailers. (8 marks) b. What is sales forecasting? (2 marks)

Band Camp is gonna start charging
Popular DIY music site, Bandcamp.com, has announced that it will soon begin charging a percentage of sales to artists who sell music through the service. They explained: In the past six months, you guys have used Bandcamp to sell over $1 million USD

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

Multiple facts in a fact table
One proposed model for our business (wholesale/retail) sales fact is to have every register ring in one fact. This causes refunds, voids, coupons and other 'facts' to be stored in a single fact entity. There is a column type dimension that then tells us

Perfect Dates
As the title says, how would you describe a perfect date... with or without the nasty

Null value for dates
All of my dimension tables have a value -1 that means there was no match to then dimension table. I try to put in some value such as "Unknown" or "Not available". Any suggestions for the -1 row in a Date dimension? Should I use some future date suc

Trailer url's won't play in XBMC because they don't start with "http://"
I noticed recently that some of my trailers weren't playing. I checked the nfo's that media companion had made and there were url's, but the ones that wouldn't play didn't start with "http://" Here's an example of a nfo scraped with Media

US & Canada Tour Dates!!
Taken from the official Elbow facebook page: Quote:It's the news you've all been waiting for - Elbow have just confirmed a string of dates across the U.S.A. and Canada. This autumn the band will be playing shows in Atlanta, Washington, New York,