Slowly Changing Facts
This article describes a design pattern for storing “effective dated" changes to fact tables.
2013-10-18 (first published: 2010-12-22)
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Incremental Data Loading Using CDC
Describes a design pattern for using CDC to power fast and efficient incremental data loads.
2013-06-07 (first published: 2011-01-17)
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Using FULL JOINs to Compare Datasets
This article describes a technique of using FULL JOINs to compare two datasets within a numerical tolerance.
2013-04-23 (first published: 2010-09-27)
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