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

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

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

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

Adherence to dimensional modeling in practice
I prefer following dimensional modeling principles especially those proposed by Kimball and most of the techniques discussed in this forum, I hear a lot of comments from colleagues and friends that dimensional principles are more bookish and no one follow

Modeling goals which may slowly change over time
I did a quick search on goal modeling and didn't seem to find an existing scenario that matched the one I am posting about. I have a DW modeled against data from a time-charging application within an IT department (ie everyone must record time spent on

PLM Based Terrain Modeling Tutorial Blender 2.5
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Modeling Healthcare Measurements
I'm trying to figure out how to best model a DataWarehouse Star Schema structure to capture certain medical information that will answer the questions we ask. First the questions to put in some context: 1) How many distinct patients had a BMI in the