Role playing Dimensions: When is it appropriate?
This issue has come up and I was curious what you would say. This stems out of differing interpretations of role playing a dimension in the Data Warehouse Toolkit. There are basically two faction where I work concerning when it is appropriate to role

Start and Finish dates and role-playing dimensions
I have a bunch of date dimensions, such as BaselineDate, TargetDate, etc... I created role-playing views over my Date dimension for each of the different types of dates. But each fact row will have a StartDateID and a FinishDateID for each (like

Subsetting date/time Dimensions and Role Playing Date/Time Dimensions
Working at a client site that would like to take a Date dimension using Day as Pk for Day_dim with some day of week, week day, month, year, etc. columns. Suggestion of making more conformed dimensions from Day_dim with Week_Day_dim and Month_day_dim an

How to role playing dimensions in PostgreSQL
I am new in the DW/BI world but as far as I've learned, the Kimball approach is the best. I need to make use of "role playing dimensions", more specifically I need more than one date in my fact table. I've read in the Kimball's books that it can

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Dimensions - To Create Based on Type or Role ?
I'm trying to lay down some guidelines for creating new dimensions in an existing shop. I have a mix of dimensions that are type-based and role-based. Type-based are those created because an entity (think Party) has many types (individual,

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fact table as a dimension
Hi I'm presently modeling a data mart and I would like to use a fact table as a dimension for another fact table. Is it something doable and efficient or is there a better way to do that? if yes should i just create a surrogate key and link both

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Audit dimension for a dimension?
The books describe how to create a useful audit dimension for the fact table rows, but what about the dimension table rows? Why isn't that mentioned in the books? Isn't the data quality and lineage also important for dimensions? Would you create a

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