What's an allocation unit?

Populating Fact Tables

Part 3 of Vincent Rainardi's data warehousing series looks at some of the situations and challenges of loading a fact table in a data warehouse.

Avoiding the Metadata Pitfalls

By doing a bit of groundwork and effectively controlling the scope of the metadata repository continuously throughout the project, few problems should arise.

Which of the following is not an allocation...

Kimball University: Four Fixes Refurbish Legacy Data Warehouses

DW/BI professionals are often tasked with making evolutionary upgrades and improvements to minimize cost and upheaval in the current analytic environment. We explore four upgrades that can breathe new life into legacy data warehouses.

Data Warehouse Loading

Data warehousing is becoming more and more popular, especially as companies seek to leverage the information stored in various systems to improve their business processes. Warehousing expert Vincent Rainardi brings us the next installment of his series on data warehousing, examining the issues of loading data.

You have noticed in both your SQL Server...

You have a large table that you wish...

Which RAID levels store parity information?

Analysis: Where Rules Management and BPM Meet

Is your company trying to accelerate cycle times, lower costs, improve responsiveness, ensure compliance with policies and best practices, and increase customer satisfaction? Well, of course! That's why you need a comprehensive approach to managing your organization's business rules