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

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

Too many Time Dimension Role Views?
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

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

Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games Forums (& more!)
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The Role-Playing Forum Review
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Role-Playing CS field edit on actions.
It would be cool if the Role-playing Character sheet changed automatically on actions, like if user posted a post or something For banners, it could be that (One/Two) the 'One' side would decrease/increase, or 'Two' side would increase/decrease For

FoG: Footsteps of Ghosts - A Role-Playing Community
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Role Playing Characters for Season One
Hiro Hyuga Spoiler:  Hiro Hyuga Birthdate : September 28 Gender : Male Age : 17 Height :180 cm Weight :57.3 kg Blood type : Ab Classification:Yamakage Sennin/ Yamagakure Founding Father Occupation : Anbu Sector Leader / Police

What can i expect to see at Arkham Gaming Centre?
Our gaming space includes eight tournament sized (8'x4') terrained tabletop wargames tables (wastes, desert or forest), two 4'x'4 tables for board/card games, four multi-purpose gaming tables which can be used for board, card or wargames (option of blue

Bella Swan/Cullen Vampire Transformation
I took a pic of her, and used gimp for the rest. Enjoy!

Quaity of roleplay
Why is this allways an issue here? I used to play years ago and constantly logged on to find everyone in a party, even imperials and rebels, chatting ooc in party chat, going on xp farming runs. So I stopped playing. Ive come back and hoped to find a more

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,