business objects concepts Snow flakes Schema
July 10, 2009 by Deepanshu Mehta The snowflake schema is an extension of the star schema, where each point of the star explodes into more points. In a s...
Type 3 Slowly Changing dimension
July 12, 2009 by Deepanshu Mehta In Type 3 Slowly Changing Dimension, there will be two columns to indicate the particular attribute of interest, one indicating the...
Star Schema – DWH concept
July 10, 2009 by Deepanshu Mehta In the star schema design, a single object (the fact table) sits in the middle and is radially connected to other surrounding objects (d...
Data Warehousing > Steps > Rollout To Production
July 10, 2009 by Deepanshu Mehta Task Description Once the QA team gives thumbs up, it is time for the data warehouse system to go live. Some may th...
Data Warehousing > Tools > Reporting Tool Selection
March 3, 2009 by Deepanshu Mehta Buy vs. Build There is a wide variety of reporting requirements, and whether to buy or build a reporting tool fo...
Data Warehousing > Steps > Performance Tuning > Query Performance
March 5, 2009 by Deepanshu Mehta For any production database, SQL query performance becomes an issue sooner or later. Having long-r...
Data Warehousing > Steps > Quality Assurance
July 10, 2009 by Deepanshu Mehta Task Description Once the development team declares that everything is ready for further testing, the QA team takes ove...
Data Warehousing > Steps > Production Maintenance
July 10, 2009 by Deepanshu Mehta Task Description Once the data warehouse goes production, it needs to be maintained. Tasks as such regular backup ...
OLTP v/s OLAP
March 5, 2009 by Deepanshu Mehta We can divide IT systems into transactional (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP). In general we can assume that OLTP systems provide source data to data wareh...
Data Warehousing > Tools > OLAP Tool Market Share
March 1, 2009 by Deepanshu Mehta According to OLAP Report, the top 5 OLAP vendors for 2006, 2005, 2004, and 2003 were as follows: 2006 Rank Microso...
Objective of DWH and Data flows
March 5, 2009 by Deepanshu Mehta The primary objective of data warehousing is to provide a consolidated, flexible meaningful data repository to the end user for repo...
Physical data model
July 12, 2009 by Deepanshu Mehta Physical data model re presents how the model  will be built in th e database. A physical database model  shows all table stru c...
Data Warehousing > Tools > Metadata Tool Selection
March 3, 2009 by Deepanshu Mehta Buy vs. Build Only in the rarest of cases does it make sense to build a metadata tool from scratch. This is becau...
How to get indexed on Google
June 28, 2009 by Deepanshu Mehta I am writing this article for all the blogers who want to get indexed on GOOGLE in 1 hour. If you’re not familiar with how some peopl...
Fact table Granularity – DWH concept
July 10, 2009 by Deepanshu Mehta Granularity The first step in designing a fact table is to determine the granularity of the fact table. By granularity, we me...
Fact and Fact types – DWH Concepts
July 10, 2009 by Deepanshu Mehta Types of Facts There are three types of facts:
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Additive: Additive facts are facts that can be summed up through al...
DBA – Fundamentals
July 2, 2009 by Deepanshu Mehta DBA (Data Base Administrator) is a very responsible job in any of the organisation. I will cover the basics and the fundamentals of Database Adm...
Data Warehousing > Tools > ETL Tool Selection
February 24, 2009 by Deepanshu Mehta Buy vs. Build When it comes to ETL tool selection, it is not always necessary to purchase a third-party tool. This...