PART:A

Q2: Data Warehouse – Implementation

1) Draw a snowflake schema diagram for the data warehouse. You are free to improve
the sample input_DW_data.csv file with additional rows and columns
Answer

2) Starting with the base cuboid [student, course, semester, instructor], what specific
OLAP operations (e.g., roll-up from semester to year) should you perform to list the
average grade of CS courses for each Big University student?
Answer
 Roll-up on course from course_id to department.
 Roll-up on student from student_id to university.
 Dice on course, student with department ="CS" and university = "big-university"
 Drill-down on student from university to student_name.

3) If each dimension has five levels (including all), such as “student < major < status <
university < all”, how many cuboids will this cube contain (including the base and
apex cuboids)?
Answer
Let,
Li=Number of level associated withdimesion i
Given,
 Li=5−1=4

N=4 dimesion

For an n-dimensional data cube, the total number of cuboids that can be generated (including
the cuboids generated by climbing up the hierarchies along each dimension) is:
n
Total number of cuboids=∏ ( Li +1 )
i=1

4
Total number of cuboids=( 5+ 1 )
Total number of cuboids=625