Department of Human Services to cut more than 200 jobs
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The Creative Industries Department...
... of Forth Valley College is a humming hive of academic activity most days of the week. On Fridays... not so much. A popplier pastime is the "Songs with... in the Title" game You pick a category and shoehorn items fitting that

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Let's say I have an empoyee dimension consisting of the usual attributes describing a person, but also these two: Department and Company. Let's also say I have budget numbers for the three levels (Employee, Department, and Company). I would think tha

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I'm designing a data mart for employee compensation. The measures will include things such as salary and various bonuses. Most of the data marts I've designed so far have fallen rather gracefully into a star schema. For this one, however, I have

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US gives $3B in housing aid, Florida's jobless homeowners in foreclosure to get $239M
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