Occasionally the database under design becomes more than a one-off project. For example, the data mart or data warehouse might act as a profit center for the organization, and as a solution sold to ...

When working on a multidimensional design, every fact table within scope should be handled with care. In an ideal world, each low-level fact table represents the metrics related to a business event.

The Snowflake model uses normalised data, which means that the data is organised inside the database in order to eliminate redundancy and thus helps to reduce the amount of data. The hierarchy of the ...