Comments for Garrett Edmondson http://garrettedmondson.wordpress.com Microsoft Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Tue, 21 May 2013 19:24:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Slowly Changing Facts? by Thomas Kejser http://garrettedmondson.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/slowly-changing-facts/#comment-400 Tue, 21 May 2013 19:24:07 +0000 https://garrettedmondson.wordpress.com/?p=662#comment-400 Happy to go over there and deliver our killer DW course if you can gather enough people for it :-)

]]> Comment on Data Mining by CCS Global Tech http://garrettedmondson.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/data-mining/#comment-396 Fri, 17 May 2013 11:34:42 +0000 https://garrettedmondson.wordpress.com/?p=134#comment-396 Good work. this is very informative. It provides an in depth knowledge about data mining. there are number of other write ups which can lead to more information you can look into:http://ccsglobaltech.com/blog.html

]]> Comment on Table Partitioning with Fact Tables by guptaneelam http://garrettedmondson.wordpress.com/2013/05/05/table-partitioning-with-fact-tables/#comment-387 Sun, 05 May 2013 17:22:25 +0000 https://garrettedmondson.wordpress.com/?p=664#comment-387 Very Nice!

]]> Comment on Update Fact Tables? by Table Partitioning with Fact Tables | Garrett Edmondson http://garrettedmondson.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/update-fact-tables/#comment-386 Sun, 05 May 2013 17:16:46 +0000 https://garrettedmondson.wordpress.com/?p=652#comment-386 [...] I won’t go into all the details but partition switching allows inserts and deletes to a partitioned fact tables, no matter how large, to occur almost instantly. Updates can occur orders of magnitude faster as well (but I don’t recommend updating fact tables). [...]

]]> Comment on Slowly Changing Facts? by Table Partitioning with Fact Tables | Garrett Edmondson http://garrettedmondson.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/slowly-changing-facts/#comment-385 Sun, 05 May 2013 17:16:44 +0000 https://garrettedmondson.wordpress.com/?p=662#comment-385 [...] Microsoft Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing « Slowly Changing Facts? [...]

]]> Comment on Slowly Changing Facts? by manowar77 http://garrettedmondson.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/slowly-changing-facts/#comment-383 Fri, 03 May 2013 15:03:04 +0000 https://garrettedmondson.wordpress.com/?p=662#comment-383 :) Well try to bring the DW Course in US ASAP! :)

]]> Comment on Slowly Changing Facts? by Garrett Edmondson http://garrettedmondson.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/slowly-changing-facts/#comment-382 Fri, 03 May 2013 14:15:49 +0000 https://garrettedmondson.wordpress.com/?p=662#comment-382 @David
Thanks for the comment. Good food for thought. Tell Thomas that we need some DW classes in the USA ;)

]]> Comment on Slowly Changing Facts? by manowar http://garrettedmondson.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/slowly-changing-facts/#comment-381 Fri, 03 May 2013 08:00:09 +0000 https://garrettedmondson.wordpress.com/?p=662#comment-381 Hi Garrett. I’ve also had to face that challenge to keep track of changes in a fact table and the Snapshot Fact table can be sometimes just to expensive in term of space used. That’s why I’ve define an “new” fact table type named “Temporal Snapshot Fact Table.” If you would like to look at it, you can find the slide here: http://www.slideshare.net/davidemauri/temporal-snapshot-fact-tables

]]> Comment on Why is my DW Query so SLLLOW?! by Garrett Edmondson http://garrettedmondson.wordpress.com/2012/09/23/why-is-my-dw-query-so-slllow/#comment-379 Wed, 01 May 2013 13:31:25 +0000 https://garrettedmondson.wordpress.com/?p=543#comment-379 My buddy James just wrote a BLOG post about that.

]]> Comment on Slowly Changing Facts? by Garrett Edmondson http://garrettedmondson.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/slowly-changing-facts/#comment-378 Wed, 01 May 2013 13:29:28 +0000 https://garrettedmondson.wordpress.com/?p=662#comment-378 Thanks Bill!

You are so right! Some people are nervous about snapshot tables but SSAS handles them very well (semi-additive measures , lastnonempty() etc…).

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