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I am trying to model for insurance industry, with data as follows: We have data at different levels: Policy level with related facts. ((Premium , face amount, mode etc) Policy Fund level (combination with related fact values.) Policy Rider level

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We are using PPS Monitoring for our Dashboards and we are creating our KPIs within PPS and SSAS. Our client would like to create a dimension with these KPI goals and percentages for each goal per department and measures or add to the fact table. Now

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We are getting ready to migrate from Microsoft SQL Server 2005 to 2008. Currently we use an integer (in YYYYMMDD format) as the SK on our date dimension table. I am very tempted to start using the new 3-byte Date data type (which stores only the date

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Hi I am wondering if anyone can give any advice... I have only had the new Xbox 360 250gb S for a few weeks... I was warned that the case because it is glossy is prone to scratches if you are not careful... I took my console over a friends in a bag

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Given I have 3 tables, Workforce Event Fact, Department Dimension (Type II SCD), and a Department Hierarchy (Type II SCD), and assuming the DEPTIDs in the Department Dimension table are reflected in a BASEDEPTID field in the Dept Dimension hierarchy table

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Bought a Tier 1 car and playing lower tracks again for fun
I got tired of playing with BMW M3 so bought myself a Mazda 3 again, bought best parts using in game cash, and started playing the lower levels again, it has been quite good fun too. I have to laugh thou as I found that a lot of lower level players are