Hedge Fund Industry Performance
[quote="batman"]December effect Bodes well for Hedge funds...I like this piece. Solid research...I also enjoy the 2010 outlook for funds... Hedge fund advisory firm the Hennessee Group believes the equity markets are likely to continue

HF general news
Wow this is ridiculous! We definitely need to get a sovereign connection! ------- London Hedge Fund to be Backed by Libya Libya, a country that formerly supported terrorism, is investing in a London hedge fund to the tune of hundreds of millions

Rudy post #5......"supposedly"
Note: found this over at Just for Dinar and also read that this Rudy fellow was banned from DinarVets where he was posting...not sure whats going on but this post does seem a bit different than his earlier post, will try to verify if it is.... Hello

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

Data Warehouse Modeling
Hello there, Considering the case that i am assigned to work on, which is to decide on the most appropriate schema to be chosen for the Data Warehouse / Business intelligenece Project. First of all, i would like to know the available options for me,

Data Warehouse Failure Statistics
Is there any recent study / statistics / surveys on data warehouse project pitfalls and risks ? Your help is truely appreciated. Best Regards,

Data Warehouse - Indexes
Hi, I am currently at the point where I need to think about Indexes on my data warehouse. We are currently using SQL Server 2005. As a general rule of thumb would the following hold true (Please note that the reporting requirements are still

Can Data Warehouse be used as source for operational system
What are the pros and cons of using Data Warehouse (DWH) as source for an operational system? Background:- I work for a company who have now opted to use DWH to populate some of the small operational system's data base, The data in the DWH is

Document templates for Data Warehouse Requirement Gathering
Hi All Is there any document template to collect the Data Warehousing Requirement Gathering. I was wondering if any one can point me to a link or sample document.

Relational Datawarehouse
Hi, I have always understood that a Datawarehouse uses a Dimentional Model. But then i hear that there are Datawarehouses using the Relational model. My question is if the OLTP system by itself falls under the relational model, then what would the

Data Warehouse with high data availability
When a data warehouse is being updated by periodical ETL load, there could be significant performance impact on the end users' reports while the underlying tables are touched. The data becomes volatile and the query results could be different between

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 consultant’s weekly (and monthly and annual) utilization,