Columnar database and Star Schema

Newbie - Star Schema Advice

I need help fitting my last dimension into a classic star schema Im designing. The business use is for vendors to submit product information to various businesses. My fact table is submissions that is connected to various dimensions (vendor, business,

Star Schema vs All in one table

Hi, I have a scenario where we have dimensional information and the facts in one table rather than a traditional break up into facts and dimensions. What could be the problem i could run into with having all information in one table. Thanks.

Question on symmetry in Star schema

Hi I read Kimball's Data warehouse toolkit and I came across a point that one of the advantages of having star schema is - BI / reporting tools in the market can leverage the symmetrical nature of the star schema. From what I know and I could

Star Schema put to test!

I am trying to model the following: My fact table contains a row for every game played on a machine. Every game played is attached to a PayID with attributes. Every game played could also contribute to a prize pool with its own attributes. This means

Advantages Disadvantages of Star Vs. Snowflake in your DW Env. Has anyone switched from one to another & Why ?

Can anyone list the advantages and disadvantages of Star vs. Snowflake in your DW environement . And has anyone switched from one to another and why?

Designing for columnar database

We are implementing our EDW layer in a highly normalized manner on a columnar database. The current design approach for the transactional or business event data is to have single measure/value column table (plus the keys) to hold all the values and have

Template Star Schemas

All, Is there a website or a book that we can use that has Template Star Schemas (Starter Kits) for different industries. I already have Dr. Kimball's Data Warehouse toolkit book. Is there any other material (web or book) besides the one? Thanks!

Semantic/Graph Databases

Has anyone worked with a semantic or graph database (I think Allegrograph qualifies) and can you compare/contrast it with a dimensional model?

FIVE STAR ALLIANCE HOTEL

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Clean Database

When I finish watching an episode of a TV Show in XBMC, I sometimes delete it from the library. It will then ask if I also want to delete the video file, which I do. However, Media Companion still picks up the nfo (which was not deleted by XBMC) and

Something Really Cool All Of Us Need To Do

Google yourself on google images like this: Code:flash trek forum insert_username_here I came up with

Announcement SOS Brigade Members!

All members of the SOS brigade i have some announcement again. As i Senior Inspector of the SOS brigade. I will post every months of 1) Today's active topics . there is error. 2) Today's top 20 posters 3)Overall top 20 posters 4)Top posters. there

STAR: McCanns' Horror at holiday ad (merged)

Just the front page so far: This could get interesting; let's hope the Star has some idea who is responsible.