Schaffters buy Orient Finance
The owners of Janashakthi Group, the Schaffter family, have recently concluded a deal to buy out Orient Financial Services Corporation Private Ltd (OFSC), a fully-owned subsidiary of United Motors Lanka Plc (UML) with a view to venturing into leasing

Advantages Disadvantages of Star Vs. Snowflake in your DW Env. Has anyone switched from one to another & Why ?
Can anyone list the advantages and disadvantages of Star vs. Snowflake in your DW environement . And has anyone switched from one to another and why?

Employee compensation - Star or Snowflake?
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

[grad]Progressing Star Ranks(white)
Here is my first try at ranks, hope you like them! Thanks! Drag~

Flat Table vs star schema
We hear a lot of BI implementations using star schema. (with few dims snowflaked sometimes ) Why not choose a flat table with all data put together instead of a star schema? (well , this question may seem strange, but please help me out here) Few

makeing a stand for star schema design
Hi, I am new to a financial company and I was asked to model two new sources of data in the existing mortgage data mart (not too sure if you could actually call it a datamart after seeing the design), basically I was asked to create detail information

US: Afghan war costs $300m per day / Vote: Is it time to withdraw from Afghan?
A report says that Washington spends $300 million of American taxpayers' money on Afghan war per day, and this comes as the US has failed so far to establish security in the war-torn country. This is while the withdrawal of American troops from

Question on symmetry in Star schema
Hi I read Kimball's Data warehouse toolkit and I came across a point that one of the advantages of having star schema is - BI / reporting tools in the market can leverage the symmetrical nature of the star schema. From what I know and I could

[grad]9 Star Ranks(baby blue)
This is my first ranks.. Hope you like it.. by g0tmad

Lets Play Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Outcast
Welcome to one of my newest games and my first ever Lets Play! I'm not very good at this game, and the game won't let me stop and open another window in order to save the screen shot without closing it. This is going to be a long Lets Play. Moving

4 & 5 Star Words For Tender
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Converting Snowflake to Star
Not sure how to approach this. I have inherited an existing design with a fact table representing Tenants at an apartment property, and a dimension representing the property. Tenant Fact: PropertyKey (FK) DateKey

actor thumbs, star and guest star
hi, with the new .actors folders is the actorthumbs dir used to check if the image already exists? subdue rant on why character thumbs are called actor thumbs... In the case of The X-Files, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson starred for the

Snowflake or Star Schema?
Hi, I am doing some dimensional modelling for a "not for profit" Fundraising Company They solicit Funds from the WEB, Direct Mail and Phone Solitications, etc and all Transactions are stamped with the FundID. The legacy system has all

Estimating star schema & ETL effort
We don't have weeks to go study the systems and the data structures. Unfortunately, we don't have time to understand the data in detail and have a data model, source systems to have a detail estimate of the ETL effort. What is the best way of estimating