Multiple Fact Tables vs. Consolidated Fact Table
I am trying to put together the bus matrix (to identify the facts tables) for a government correctional agency and am debating between multiple facts for each event in the life cycle of an offender vs. fewer fact tables. I wanted to avoid joining multiple

Derived Fact table with additional measures / foreign keys ... ?
Hi, Let's say we have a fact table: FactReceipt which contains all our receipting transactions that occur during the month, we may have 5 receipts of different types during one month for one contract. Now let's say we build another fact table that

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

Measures as Dimensions: Banding Approach Help
I have a standard fact table with a number measures; several of which are in the form of time (e.g., minutes) and others in the form of integers. The fact table and related dimensions are exposed to users via BusinessObjects XI v2 Web Intelligence. One of

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

How many measures in a fact table is acceptable?
Hi, I would like to find out what is the maximum number of measures allowed in a fact table? Thanks

Guidelines for FACT Table Design for High-Transaction Volume and High # of Measures ...
Hi All - This inquiry could actually be two questions, but the requirement is really presentation of row-wise high volume transactional data in a column-wise (columnar) FACT table. Here is a sample transactional data set: Interval Date TimeUni

Fact table with non-numeric measure
I have a transactional fact table containing results of inspections. The results are non-numeric, but do represent a measurement, that is inspection result (like "pass", "fail", "pass with infraction", "failure with

Modelling question - Multiple fact tables with one to many relationships and querying from many fact tables
Its a new capital markets data warehouse in design stage. I have deal_deatils_fact - 1 row per deal with all measures at deal level - dealID (Degenerative DIemsnion - DD) deal_tranche_fact - 1 row per deal per tranche with all measures at the

Muliple currencies for periodic snapshot fact table
We are designing a periodic snapshot fact table that will collect the cost of various tasks, on a monthly basis. The user is an international company, so many of the tasks are expressed in the currency of the country where the work will take place. They

ETL approach for replacing multiple dates in one row.
We have a Fact table that stores several key dates in the life cycle of a customer. Each of these dates is supposed to be a surrogate key pointing to the date dimension. My questions pertains to efficiently replacing these dates with surrogate keys in the

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

Loading Fact table
Hi, I have following tables FACT, A_DIM, B_DIM. How do I update relationship between a_key and b_key in the FACT table when new record arrives in TYPE2 a_dim dimension? Below is simple create scrip to illustrate what I mean. create table fact (a_key

fact table as a dimension? Is that bad?
I'm working on my first business process in a dimensional model for a call center. The process we've selected is Quality Assurance; the grain of the fact table is one record for each Quality Category. Another fact we'll be creating is a contact point fact

Using a dimension in multiple fact tables with different grain and support SCD
Hello users, i've a question about using a dimension in fact tables with different granularity and at the same time retain support for SCD. My scenario: I have one Dimension called Apartment. This Dimension cosists of the following related