Tobias Brox wrote:
I suppose the strongest argument for introducing date dimensions already
now is that I probably will benefit from having conform and
well-designed dimensions when I will be introducing more data marts. As
for now I have only one fact table and some few dimensions in the
syst
On 1/23/07, Tobias Brox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Does anyone have experience with using postgres for data warehousing?
Right, I saw one post suggestion to use mysql for a mostly read-only
database ... but anyway, I think it's not a question to change the
database platform for this project, at l
[Chad Wagner - Tue at 08:24:34AM -0500]
> I guess go with your gut, but at some point the expressions are going to be
> too complicated to maintain, and inefficient.
The layout of my system is quite flexible, so it should eventually be
fairly trivial to throw in a date dimension at a later stage.
On 1/23/07, Tobias Brox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ralph Kimball seems to be some kind of guru on data warehousing, and
in his books he's strongly recommending to have a date dimension -
simply a table describing all dates in the system, and having
I would tend to agree with this line of thou
Does anyone have experience with using postgres for data warehousing?
Right, I saw one post suggestion to use mysql for a mostly read-only
database ... but anyway, I think it's not a question to change the
database platform for this project, at least not today ;-)
Ralph Kimball seems to be some ki
