Assignment No.

2(Graded) Total Marks: 20

Semester Fall 2020

Data Warehousing– CS614 Due Date: 15-12-2020

Objective:

This assignment has been designed to develop your ability to Dimension Modeling and star schema
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Note:The assignment covers lectures 13-14.

Question (Marks 20)

“E-book store” is a web-based books shop that offers an online purchase service of books to the users who can
place orders using the website. It offers books of different categories and from different authors. The
administrative staff can update books information and manage categories of products. Main categories include
Science books, Fiction books, history books, Islamic books, Math books, etc. The user (Customer) can views
information about books and can place orders. The user will confirm the order and checkout. He/she can also
cancel the order before the order is shipped. Payment will be made through credit card or debit card. GST (Sale
tax) will also be included in the total price of books. Books will be delivered to the address provided by the user
(customer). Given below is the ERD of the above-given scenario?
 Now, using the above scenario consider the process “Books Sale”. The entities which are involved in the
process are given in above ERD. The process has the following information;
“Customer ‘A’ ordered 5 History books from e-book shop”.
“Customer ‘B’ ordered 8 Science books from e-book shop”.
“Customer ‘C’ ordered 5 Fiction books and 5 Islamic books from e-book shop”.
You have studied four steps which are involved in dimensional modeling. First step is to identify the business
process. Consider the process Books Sales” described above. Apply the remaining steps of dimensional
modeling to find out the grain, facts and dimensions, also create a simplified star schema from it.
Note: Deadline for assignment submission is 15 December 2020.

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