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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.

Naming standards for dimensional modeling

I am working on my first dimensional modeling assignment for a Data Warehouse project using Kimball's approach. As I prepare …

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How to handle late arriving dimension and NULL business key in Kimball Data Mart?

I'm trying to implement Kimball data mart which uses -1 and -2 rows in dimension table for late arriving dimension …

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Handling nulls in Datawarehouse

I'd like to ask your input on what the best practice is for handling null or empty data values when …

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Calendar table for Data Warehouse

For my data warehouse, I am creating a calendar table as follows: SET NOCOUNT ON DROP Table dbo.Calendar GO …

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