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Rudolph is an imposter!
Chris Umbaugh
Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence Consultant
twitter @ToledoSQL
December 28, 2011 at 5:54 am
Great question Jeff! I like you explanation for the last answer, option (I). I was going to be angry if that were one of the correct answers. We do not...
Chris Umbaugh
Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence Consultant
twitter @ToledoSQL
December 27, 2011 at 6:34 am
Did not know that. Thanks!
Chris Umbaugh
Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence Consultant
twitter @ToledoSQL
December 16, 2011 at 12:57 pm
Nice question!
All this time travel has me a little freaked out. To everyone from September: Don't put your money on the Yankees in October!
Chris Umbaugh
Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence Consultant
twitter @ToledoSQL
October 14, 2011 at 10:00 am
Are you looking for the sales ON the last day of each month or the sales for each month AS OF the last day of each month (including all of...
Chris Umbaugh
Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence Consultant
twitter @ToledoSQL
October 12, 2011 at 6:58 am
Ben,
I absolutely will be using these keywords now that I know about them and what they do. I have a habit of comparing and contrasting "new-to-me" techniques and tools...
Chris Umbaugh
Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence Consultant
twitter @ToledoSQL
October 12, 2011 at 6:47 am
I would always choose to materialize my facts and dimensions separately in ETL as you suggest TVR. I am unclear on what business event you are attempting to measure (having...
Chris Umbaugh
Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence Consultant
twitter @ToledoSQL
October 11, 2011 at 2:37 pm
I also had never heard of EXCEPT and INTERSECT and learned a lot from this QOD. I even had an opportunity to employ INTERSECT in a QA query this afternoon....
Chris Umbaugh
Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence Consultant
twitter @ToledoSQL
October 11, 2011 at 11:53 am
BenWard (7/11/2011)
rmechaber (7/11/2011)
Can someone explain to me why you might expect the SUM(CASE) construct wouldn't work? I use this all the time and thought it was pretty straightforward T-SQL.
lol...
Chris Umbaugh
Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence Consultant
twitter @ToledoSQL
July 11, 2011 at 8:18 am
Good question! The title almost had me fooled too. I breezed right by and figured 47 would be the answer. However, I've been answering these QODs long enough to know...
Chris Umbaugh
Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence Consultant
twitter @ToledoSQL
July 11, 2011 at 8:08 am
umas (6/28/2011)
This customer name is an attribute (Keycolumn: CustomerNo ; NameColumn: CustomerName) in my dimension called Shipment (Key column: CustomerNo, Shipment Date, ShipAgentCode ; NameColumn: CustomerNo).
Uma,
Have you made...
Chris Umbaugh
Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence Consultant
twitter @ToledoSQL
July 1, 2011 at 6:40 am
Uma,
Sounds like you need to SCOPE the calculation. SCOPE over-rides a member when the specified set is "in scope". If I have some time tonight, I will shoot a...
Chris Umbaugh
Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence Consultant
twitter @ToledoSQL
June 29, 2011 at 11:02 am
Happy to help!
Chris Umbaugh
Data Warehouse/BI Consultant
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Chris Umbaugh
Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence Consultant
twitter @ToledoSQL
June 23, 2011 at 2:09 pm
Hello,
So I understand that you basically need to allocate values to members based on a value of a member at another level, the ALL member (the total shipment amount). Here...
Chris Umbaugh
Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence Consultant
twitter @ToledoSQL
June 23, 2011 at 1:17 pm
That worked! I don't really understand why it worked but it does. Thank you for the suggestion!
Chris
Chris Umbaugh
Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence Consultant
twitter @ToledoSQL
June 17, 2011 at 6:01 am
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