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Showing posts with label Dimension. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dimension. Show all posts
Thursday, August 3, 2017

Script for creating DimTime Dimension Table and populating data

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The posts I made on date dimension table ( Script for populating Date Dimension with Financial Year and  Loading Data Script for Snowflak...
Saturday, May 16, 2015

What is a Junk Dimension?

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Dimension represents entities that will be used for analyzing facts in the data warehouse. There are different type of dimensions like Reg...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

What are the reasons for introducing a surrogate key to a dimension table?

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When designing a dimension table such as Product and Employee in a data warehouse, a surrogate key is introduced for implementing an uniqu...
Sunday, April 6, 2014

Reasons for adding a surrogate key for dimension tables

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As a best practice, we always add a new key, known as a surrogate key to dimension tables for identifying the records uniquely. However, gen...
Sunday, April 17, 2011

Ordering Attribute Members of Dimensions in Analysis Services

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As each attribute in a dimension can have a key column and optionally name column, attribute can be sorted by either key or name column. Sor...
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Dinesh Priyankara (MSc IT) is an MVP – Data Platform (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional) in Sri Lanka with 16 years’ experience in various aspects of database technologies including business intelligence. He has done many local and foreign business intelligence implementations and has worked as a subject matter expert on various database and business intelligence related projects. He is the Founder/Principal Architect of dinesQL (Pvt) Ltd and he consults, teaches and runs training programs on data related solutions and subjects.
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