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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

Questions about Dimension Role-Playing
On page 110 of "The Data Warehouse Toolkit (2nd Edition)" it talks about basically creating a view for each "role" the time table might represent. Seems like you would end up with an excessive number of views. The 2nd paragraph state

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I have a question about date fields and the time dimension. We have an Order Detail fact table that has about 10 date fields. We're not sure how best to handle these with regards to joining them to the "Time" dimension. If we strictly

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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

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Discuss this double-standard between sexually active men and women. GO GO GO.

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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According to their website that is. Not quite how I would describe Random Hold, mind. Anybody remember them? It wouldn't be surprising if you didn't since I think they sold about 5 records (and I bought two of them!) What started as experimental

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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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