it's cheaper on bookpool :)

especially when Borders is out of stock

you guys are killing my credit card!  I went out and bought Inmon's
Building the Data Warehouse, BOTH Kimball books and and considering the
Webhouse one as well.... geez, when do I have time to READ this stuff?

Rachel

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> Yup, $60, and worth every penny.
> 
> It may be 4 years old, but the information is still pertinent.
> 
> Jared
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Joe Testa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> 
> looks like published aug of 98 for that book?, like $60?
> 
> joe
> 
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> >Joe,
> >
> >Add a generated PK to the time dimension.  The PK is stored
> >as an FK in the fact table.
> >
> >That way you can select from the time dimension by year, day, qtr, 
> >whatever,
> >and easily pick out the correct fact table rows.
> >
> >"The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit" includes a spreadsheet to
> generate
> >the DDL/DML for a very robust time dimension.  I think it has about
> 20 
> >columns.
> >
> >Very good book, can't recommend it enough.
> >
> >Jared
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Joe Testa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> >05/20/2002 04:08 PM
> >Please respond to ORACLE-L
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> >        To:     Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L 
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> >        Subject:        Data Warehouse experts, a simple question
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> >
> >
> >Ok i'm messing with dimensions.
> >
> >dm_time to be exact:
> >
> >create table dm_time
> >( calendar_date date not null,
> >  calendar_month number(2) not null,
> >  calendar_qtr number(1) not null,
> >  calendar_year number(4) not null);
> >
> >insert into dm_time values(to_date('20020101','YYYYMMDD'),
> 1,1,2002);
> >insert into dm_time values(to_date('20030101','YYYYMMDD'),
> 1,1,2003);
> >
> > 2 rows nice and simple
> >
> > trying to validate the dimension comes up with an error, my guess
> is 
> >because of the design of the table
> > 
> > where basically calendar_date is child of
> >     calendar_month is child of calendar_qtr is child of
> calendar_year, 
> >wont validate.
> >
> >-  the question i have is this, should month really be like 2002-01
> with 
> >the year included, likewise with qtr, then it
> >will validate ok.
> >
> >Was the design of dm_time just dont wrong or am i missing something
> here.
> >
> >thanks, joe
> >
> >
> 
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