As the number of types of slowly changing dimensions (SCDs) increased, things have ended with Types 0 through 7, making essentially eight of them. But I do not believe full consensus exists among ...

Let's look at some code samples for a Type 2 SCD In a previous blog entry I discussed the concept of the Slowly Changing Dimension or SCD. A good example is how to handle the analysis of Sales by ...

Naïve approaches to business intelligence will occasionally trap designers as they juggle operational data stores and data warehouses. The trap results from an honest endeavor to simplify designs and ...

SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) has superseded DTS in SQL 2005 and has some great new features beyond better performance, more scalability and an integrated debugging facility. As if that was ...