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  • RE: Programmers v Salespeople

    20+ years as a technology professional, so just guess my answer to this question. PLEEEEEEAAAAASE. Are you kidding me?

    [font="System"]Jay Quincy Allen, Managing Partner, Relational Models LLC[/font]

  • RE: Managing Data Dictionaries in DW and DSS Database Applications

    You're right, I took this away from the original topic and it would be better served in another forum. I understand that many say "it's the best", not to...

    [font="System"]Jay Quincy Allen, Managing Partner, Relational Models LLC[/font]

  • RE: Managing Data Dictionaries in DW and DSS Database Applications

    Frank, why would that be considered best practice? A temporal relational data warehouse in database tables captures more data than a dimensional model, has a lower footprint on disk,...

    [font="System"]Jay Quincy Allen, Managing Partner, Relational Models LLC[/font]

  • RE: Managing Data Dictionaries in DW and DSS Database Applications

    Why would you implement a dimensional model in SQL Server database tables instead of Analysis Services?

    [font="System"]Jay Quincy Allen, Managing Partner, Relational Models LLC[/font]

  • RE: Disk Is Cheap! ORLY?

    Yes, sorry Jeffrey, a heap index, not a hash.

    [font="System"]Jay Quincy Allen, Managing Partner, Relational Models LLC[/font]

  • RE: Disk Is Cheap! ORLY?

    Someone mentioned in an earlier post that all tables must have a cluster definition. This is not true. It's called a hash table.

    [font="System"]Jay Quincy Allen, Managing Partner, Relational Models LLC[/font]

  • RE: Disk Is Cheap! ORLY?

    Solomon,

    Great article. I used to get very frustrated with programmers AND DBA's that thought the normalization aspects of relational models would cause a degredation in performance. I know...

    [font="System"]Jay Quincy Allen, Managing Partner, Relational Models LLC[/font]

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