Geospatial Modeling
Are there any resources I can reference for modeling geospatial data? In our particular case, we are modeling a pipeline as the basic "fact" where the geographic location is of particular importance. In addition we need to model the location

Need for a dimensional modeling tool?
I'd like to hear opinions from members of this group about the need for a modeling tool that's more oriented towards dimensional models. Most of us use Erwin or a similar modeling tool, which is designed for general E/R modeling (to be honest, Erwin also

Advantages of Dimensional Modeling
Hi I have few questions on advantages of dimensional modeling as provided in the book DWH Lifecycle Toolkit by Ralph. (1) In the book , on Page 150, it is mentioned that "Aggregation software packages and utilities depend on a very specific single

Beginning Data Modeling for DW
Hello, Please bear with me as these are a beginner's struggle to implement the DW the best way possible. I recently started studying about Kimball modeling. I would like to ask a few questions on common practices on modeling the DW. I need to

Modeling a fact with multiple sources
We have a situation where multiple business processes will generate a recommendation. A recommendation is a set of instructions, estimated costs, risk analysis, etc. for identified hazards. Examples of various business processes that generate these

Modeling A Realistic Tree In Blender 2.5 Part 2
Modeling A Realistic Tree In Blender 2.5 Part 2

Migration to Dimensional Modeling - Testing
Hello, I migrated a relational database to dimensional modeling database. I need to test that all the information in the source system is there in the target system. One technique which can be used is... - to calculate the number of records in the

Modeling help on dimension with many boolean value
Hi I'm really stuck on how to model a user need/business need Basically, we are in the healthcare and we have a software that manage the work of the paramedics in ambulances. There is a table that store all standard informations about the work of

Need help with modeling employee and degrees earned
Requirements: 1) Provide monthly employee counts that can be sliced by an employee's degree granting institution(s) and/or institutional research activity levels 2) Count new hires by their highest degree earned at time of hire and/or by terminal

Transactional schema to dimensional modelling
I am in the process converting a transactional schema to dimensional modeling for reporting solution using business objects. I have a lot of component entities and classification entities which have a one to many relationships. When I convert them to

Dimensional Modeling In depth training
Hi, I am looking for Kimball Dimensional Modeling In depth training and I am based in UK. Kimball group do not have any training schedule this year in UK. Any suggestion would be appreciated.

PLM Modeling Tutorial Blender 2.4 & 2.5
This is a multi part tutorial to which I will be adding more videos to can be done either in Blender 2.4 or 2.5. Part 2 PLM Tutorial Blender 2.4 & 2.5 Part 3 Simulating Mesh Damage Part 3 Blender 2.4 PLM

Modeling tool with support for hierarchies
Hi, this is my first post to this forum so please be nice! hehe I'm at the beginning of a fairly large DWH project (by Norwegian standards) and I have been reviewing data modeling tools recently. However, there seems to be a general lack of support

Blender - Modeling the female torso - Part 1
I don't know about the music , but whatever... This is the first part, there are a bunch more. If you make it thru the first part pop over to his youtube channel for the rest since he has 2 different versions and I'm confused as hll..

Dimensional modeling spreadsheet license clarification
I've been using some of the tools provided with the "Microsoft Data Warehouse" book: http://www.kimballgroup.com/html/booksMDWTtools.html In particular the Dimensional modeling spreadsheet (under Chapter 2) and the Metadata database create