Dimensional Modeling Case Study Part 3 - Dynamic Days Dimension
In this next installment of the date dimension series, learn how to create a table that supports different types of banding.
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Department of Redundancy Department
Ever wonder all the reasons that we use databases instead of file systems? While we don’t think of it too much anymore, the first reason that databases came into existence was to remove redundancies.
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Dimensional Modeling Case Study Part 2 - Days Dimension
Learn how you can model days in a dimension that might need to be aggregated in different ways for your data warehouse operations.
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Dimensional Modelling Case Study Part 1 - Age Group
Learn how you can handle dimensional modeling in a data warehouse when your data uses different categorization for ages.
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Having Data Modeling Standards
Today Steve talks about data modeling and how standards can transfer knowledge between developers.
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Cone of Uncertainty
Our design and modeling is often done with some level of uncertainty. Steve has a few guidelines today.
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Database Modeling - Relationships
A proper relationship between two people, places or things improves the communication between them. In every real-world based application, this logic holds and a database is no different. This article discusses the different relationship types possible between database objects. The designing of these relationships between them is called modeling, and the three types of relationships […]
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Five Online Database Modelling Services
To design, or redesign, a database of any complexity, the Entity-Relationship modelling tool becomes essential. The specialized tools that have dominated the industry for a long while are expensive and are installed on a workstation. Now that browser technology has progressed so rapidly, the online database modelling tools have become viable and are starting to attract the attention of database designers. Are they good enough to use now? Robert Sheldon finds out.
2016-03-11
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