Top "Data-warehouse" questions

A data warehouse (DW) is a database specifically structured/designed to aid in querying, analyzing and reporting (generating reports out of) of current and historical data.

How to sum a calculated measure?

I have a fairly complex calculated measure that works perfectly for each row of data from a cube. However, I …

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Best practice to Load Fact table in MS SSIS

I am new to SSIS in data warehouse. I am using Microsoft business intelligence studio. I have 5 Dimensions each having …

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In a star schema, are foreign key constraints between facts and dimensions neccessary?

I'm getting my first exposure to data warehousing, and I’m wondering is it necessary to have foreign key constraints …

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Can you recommend a good source for Teradata Best Practices?

Looks like my data warehouse project is moving to Teradata next year (from SQL Server 2005). I'm looking for resources about …

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PostgreSQL to Data-Warehouse: Best approach for near-real-time ETL / extraction of data

Background: I have a PostgreSQL (v8.3) database that is heavily optimized for OLTP. I need to extract data from it …

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Is it possible to partially refresh a materialized view in Oracle?

I have a very complex Oracle view based on other materialized views, regular views as well as some tables (I …

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Calendar tables in PostgreSQL 9

I am building an analytics database (I have a firm understanding of the data and the business objectives and only …

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One or multiple fact tables?

I am trying to build a data mart. I have lot of dimensions, and couple of measures - facts. Every …

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Star schema [fact 1:n dimension]...how?

I am a newcomer to data warehouses and have what I hope is an easy question about building a star …

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Differences between Data Vault and Dimensional modeling?

When modeling a data warehouse, is there any reason we should favor Data Vault over Dimensional modelling? What are the …

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