At first glance, a client appeared to be violating a cardinal rule of data warehousing. However, Bill Inmon's further investigation revealed that perhaps their actions were acceptable.
2008-12-29
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The following article shows how Change Data Capture can be used to capture incremental data changes and use them in an ETL Process
2008-11-10
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This paper introduces the new performance and manageability features for data warehousing across all these components. All these features contribute to improved scalability.
2008-10-17
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Data warehouses aren't just exploding in size, they're also supporting more users and increasingly complex queries, all in shorter time frames. Here's how to make sure yours is ready to scale.
2008-10-16
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Capacity planning is a problem for a data warehouse because it sets contrasting functional requirements against each other. On one hand, data warehouse customers consume data warehouse capacity as they query the data in the data warehouse business intelligence (BI) reporting. Meanwhile, applications consume data warehouse capacity as they load data into a data warehouse through the extract, transform and load (ETL) process.
2008-09-19
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Murphy’s Law tells us that whatever can go wrong will go wrong. This axiom applies to all aspects of life, including data warehousing. The following corollaries to Murphy’s Law relate this inevitability of something going “bump” in the night to data warehousing.
2008-09-15
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In a report entitled "Really Urgent Analytics: The Sweet Spot for Real-Time Data Warehousing," Forrester advises intelligence and knowledge management professionals to familiarize themselves with the various approaches for adapting a data warehouse to meet real-time requirements, and, if necessary, consider bypassing the data warehouse altogether.
2008-09-02
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This article describes what the dimension manager and fact provider do, and how to configure business intelligence tools to use the integrated EDW.
2008-05-14
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This article provides guidance to what an integrated EDW is and what design elements are needed to achieve integration.
2008-05-13
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2012-01-11 (first published: 2008-04-16)
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By Steve Jones
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back...
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