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May 2009 - Posts

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We have a visit from MySpace database team in our lab this week. I have used this opportunity and asked Kevin Stephenson, MySpace’s Senior Database Developer, about “pain points” he encounters while doing his everyday job supporting SQL Server. He brought Read More...
Assigning surrogate keys to early arriving facts using Integration Services
In data warehouses, it is quite common that fact records arrive with a source system key that has not yet been loaded in the dimension tables. This phenomena is known as “late arriving dimensions” or “early arriving facts” in Kimball terminology. When Read More...
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