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What is fact less fact table? Where you have used it in your project?

Asked By: manoj77ku | Asked On: Jul 16th, 2006

Answered by: blsashok on: Aug 14th, 2010

We cannot do any measures on it.
Values are generally text in nature.
We maintain a status to track the event.

Ex-Visitors to the office.
List of people for the web click.

Answered by: Allwyn Poikavila on: Jul 3rd, 2010

A fact which has possibly NO measure but can be seen as count of occurences or events is called factless fact. example: no. of accidents per month on roads.If i elaborate more, no. of accidents i...

What is the difference between datawarehousing and businessintelligence?

Asked By: zilanibasha | Asked On: Jun 1st, 2006

Answered by: desaial on: Dec 11th, 2008

Data Warehousing: It is a process that includes the extracting the data (from source systems), cleaning, transforming and delivering them to the Data Warehouse (databases) for the loading purpose.&nbs...

Answered by: ravi_kumar_garre on: Nov 14th, 2007

Business Intelligence:BI is a broad cateogry of applications and technologies for gathering, integrating, storing, analysing and providing access to data to help enterprise users make better business ...

What is active data warehousing?

Asked By: prasad | Asked On: Jan 6th, 2006

Answered by: desaial on: Dec 9th, 2008

Active Data Warehouse is the DWH that enables the decision makers of the organisation to understand the trends and patterns of the market (by analysing the captured transactional data in the DWH) and thereby helping them to arrive at an INFORMED future decision(s).

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Answered by: lab125 on: Feb 19th, 2008

Active Data Warehousing (ADW)The technical ability to capture transactions when they change, and integrate them in to the warehouse - along with maintaining batch or scheduled cycle refreshes.

Explain in detail about type 1, type 2(scd), type 3 ?

Asked By: prasath | Asked On: Oct 4th, 2005

Answered by: ypinky on: Jul 26th, 2010

SCD-1 (Current)Overwriting the old values in the dimension record. SCD-2 (History and Current)Creating an additional dimension record at the time of the change with the new attribute values. ...

Answered by: desaial on: Dec 9th, 2008

SCD means Slowly Changing Dimension. The price of the product, address of the person, name of the city are few examples of SCD.There are three methods to capture SCD.Type 1: Overwriting the old values...

Cardinality

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Jul 30th, 2005

Expresses the minimum and the maximum number of instances of an entity b that can be associated with an instance of an entity a. The minimum and the maximum number of instances can be equal to 0,1, or n.

Answered by: ASHOK1324 on: Apr 19th, 2009

Cardinality describes a join between 2 tables by stating how many rows of one table will match with rows of another table. It is very important to detect join problems and to create the contexts to co...

Answered by: desaial on: Jun 26th, 2008

Cardinality means "How many instances of an Entity (on one side of the join) are related to the how many instance of another entity (on the other side of the join)"

What is a cube in datawarehousing concept?

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Aug 8th, 2005

Answered by: desaial on: Aug 20th, 2007

CUBE is used in DWH for representing multidimensional data logically.  Using the cube, it is easy to carry out certain activity e.g. drill down / drill up, slice and dice, etc. which enables the ...

Answered by: jahnavi.s on: Sep 20th, 2006

yes,cube is a logical representation of data.12 steps are required for the creation of cubes.its mainly used for analysis purpose. we can analyse which product can be sold more in which country all these we available in the cube by performing operatoins like roll-up,drill-down,slice and dice

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