Are you ready for Data Warehouses?
Data warehousing is being used more and more everyday and longtime data warehouse DBA Janet Wong brings us a short look at
her first project and some thoughts about warehousing in general.
Introduction to Data Warehousing Part 1
In Part 1 of this extensive series, Wes Dumey starts some of the core concepts of data warehousing. In this video he covers what a data warehouse is, why companies use them and what are some of the key components.
More Problems with Data Warehousing
In response to the first part, new author Richard Gardner brings us a few more issues that you should be aware of when planning
your data warehouse.
SQLServerCentral.com Site Migration
A short look and some notes from the SQLServerCentral.com site migration.
Mastering Enterprise BI: Time Intelligence Pt. II
BI Architect Bill Pearson continues his introduction to enhanced features in Analysis Services 2005 for Time Intelligence support. In this session, we examine new, wizard-driven features that support the easy addition of Time Intelligence within our cube.
Designing A Data Warehouse: Part 1 Dimension Types
In this first part of a multiple part series, Brian Knight shows the different types of slowly changing dimensions you'll use and the business reason for using each type.
Different forms of CrossJoin
This article is about different syntactical ways to write CrossJoin in MDX, all of which are completely equivalent from the functional and performance standpoint. Therefore, the article doesn't convey any practical information, and can be ignored. Readers curious about history of MDX can keep reading, however.
Build Date Generators and Manipulate Date and Time Data in SQL
Learn how to build date generators without loops using SQL, and some useful techniques to help you manipulate date and time data.
SQLServerCentral.com Web Site Migration
We're moving our web server to the UK this weekend, so there will be a bit of downtime Friday night.
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