The error message means exactly what it says. Right above your ORDER BY, you need a GROUP BY statement that lists out every field that is not aggregated in...

Why bother copying the files for TempDB? It practically gets "recreated" every time the service gets stopped. Just run the Alter Database command on the files, stop the...

And yet a poorly written ETL process could inadvertantly orphan records. Since I might not be the only person writing ETL processes (we're starting out with two DB sources,...

You mean besides referential integrity between the Fact table and the Dimension tables?

My setup includes 3 star schemas that overlap each other on one of the dimensions. I'd like to...

Steve, Unfortunately, all my different entities have different fields. Again with the Junk Dimensions issue. I might end up with a 40+ column wide "archive" table with millions of...

Isn't Ralph the name of your evil twin brother, Ryan? @=)

I've actually been thinking about that, but it would involve adding at least 12 more tables to my DB.

I did find an interesting article on "Junk Dimensions" in SQL Server...

I used to think that, but given how Indexes are set up (depending on the Clustered or Non-Clustered) and whether or not you have Triggers / Defaults / Etc... I...

Ryan,

If you read his first post, he doesn't want to SUM the QuantityShipped. And I was only addressing the math problem, not the GROUP BY (although I should have...

Your aggregate is in the wrong place.

Your code = (SUM([Unit Price] * QuantityShipped) / QuantityShipped) AS [A.S.P]

SUM should be on the outside of the parens, not inside the...

Tomm,

You are correct. This is exactly what my BUs and Boss want to accomplish with this. Historical auditing as well as reporting.

I'd love to see this paper of...

Hmm. That's a point I hadn't taken into consideration. I'm pretty new to all this DW / Cube stuff and am following the requirements laid out by the...

Actually re-assessing is what I'm in the middle of.

Problem is Datawarehouse design where I have to account for changing Entity records (different types of people where each "type" is in...

But if I misunderstood your question and you're just trying to run it on all DBs in Dev (for instance) and then later move it to test...

You have a couple...

First of all, you shouldn't be creating the stored procedure in all three environments at the same time. It violates the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) process and could...