The University of Texas at Arlington

Master’s in Business Annalytics

Spring 2024

INSY- 5337- 001 DATA WAREHOUSE AND BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

HOMEWORK -4

Submitted by
Dwarakanath Gutta
1002126239

Instructor
Dr. A. C. Sahoo

Problems

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1. You should identify dimensions, map dimensions to data sources, and specify dimension hierarchies.
For each dimension, you should identify its data sources and attributes in each data source. For
hierarchical dimensions, you should indicate the levels from broad to narrow.

Sol: The dimensions identified are: 1. Supplier 2. Product 3. Time

For supplier dimension:

1. The Supplier table serves as the data source and the SuppNo is the primary key for the Supplier dimension.

2. The Supplier table serves as the data source, and the characteristics are SuppName, SuppPhone, SuppEmail, and
SuppDisc.

3. Taking into account the hierarchical dimensions, the country code, area code, and phone number in this
SuppPhone hierarchy.

For product dimension:

4. The top level domain, second level domain, and local portion make up SuppEmail's hierarchy.

ProdNo serves as the main key and the Product table serves as the data source for the first Product dimension.

2. The spreadsheet provides the ProdCode and ProdDesc.

3. The Product table serves as the data source for ProdName and ProdQOH.

For time dimension:

1. The Date attribute from the spreadsheet, PurchDate, is mentioned for the Time dimension. It is hierarchical.

2. You should specify measures, related data sources, and measure aggregation properties.

Sol: The following tabular form specifies measures, related data sources and measure aggregation
properties:

Name of the Measure Data Source Aggregation property

SuppDisc Supplier table Snapshot measure
ProdPrice Product table Snapshot measure
ProdQOH Product table Semi additive measure
PLQty PurchLine table Additive measure
PLUnitCost PurchLine table Snapshot measure
Stock Spreadsheet Semi additive measure

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 UnitPrice Spreadsheet Snapshot measure
Amount Spreadsheet derived additive measure
Qty Spreadsheet Additive measure

3. Identify the grain in your dimensional design using the business needs as a guideline. You should then
indicate relative storage requirements for the grain using the statistics for the data sources. Using the
cardinality estimates provided, you should determine either the fact table size or sparsity and then
compute the unknown grain size variable. For example, you should compute sparsity if the fact table size
is given.

Sol: The steps of this problem is as follows:

• 1100 is the total of the product rows and the unique product rows.

• 60 is the total of the supplier rows and the unique supplier rows.

• There are 365 days in a year.

• To get the fact table size, we must add up the rows from the spreadsheet and the Purchaseline table.
500,000 + 1000 * 12 = 500,000 + 12000 = 512,000, then.

• The estimate of sparsity is equal to 1 - (fact table size/product of dimensions) (1- (512000/
(1100*60*365)) = 0.9787 (based on the previously provided data).

• With just more than 1% of cells missing, the data cube has essentially missed nothing.

4.Extend your analysis to design a star schema (or variation) to support inventory analysis. For each
table, you should define the table name, primary key, and columns. You do not need to write complete
CREATE TABLE statements.

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5.Identify summarizability problems in your star schema and indicate preferred resolutions of the
summarizability problems. For incomplete dimension-fact relationships, you should also indicate if
columns in a dimension table allow null values.

Sol: The summarizability problems and the resolutions are as follows:

• The supply spreadsheet does not include the delivery date.Thus, the DelDate link is an incomplete fact-dimension
relationship in a fact-dimension relationship. Since the delivery date will be tracked in the spreadsheet, we are
unable to alter the current data; however, we are able to alter the next data source.

•When the dates of supply purchase and delivery coincide, that date may be set as the default value.The spreadsheet
does not include the SuppEmail and SuppPhone properties for certain vendors. SuppEmail and Suppphone are
consequently disconnected. Since there isn't a proper default setting, extra data can be used to address this
shortcoming.

6. You should populate your data warehouse tables based on the data in the sample tables and spreadsheet.
You do not need to write SQL INSERT statements or insert the data into your tables. You can just show
table listings in your solution. You should indicate mappings from data sources into tables. For example,
mapping may involve generating new primary key values for a data warehouse table or using a default
value for a missing value.

Sol: Since the data warehouse table was constructed using the source table, it is the sample date of the data
warehouse table. Delivery and Acquisition The delivery date is set to the default value of the acquisition

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date. This is because the value does not include the source data. A surrogate primary key value has been
created using the data from the table data source.
Sample Data for the Supplier Dimension Table

SuppNo SuppName SuppEmail SuppPhone

S2029929 ColorMeg, Inc. [email protected] (720) 444-1231
S3399214 Connex [email protected] (206) 432-1142
S4290202 Ethlite [email protected] (303) 213-2234
S4298800 Intersafe [email protected] (512) 443-2215
S4420948 UV Components [email protected] (303) 321-0432
S5095332 Cybercx [email protected] (212) 324-5683

Sample Data for the Product Dimension Table

ProdNo ProdName
P0036566 17 inch Color Monitor
P0036577 19 inch Color Monitor
P1114590 R3000 Color Laser Printer
P1412138 10 Foot Printer Cable
P1445671 8-Outlet Surge Protector
P1556678 CVP Ink Jet Color Printer
P3455443 Color Ink Jet Cartridge
P4200344 36-Bit Color Scanner
P6677900 Black Ink Jet Cartridge
P9995676 Battery Back-up System

Sample Data for the Time Dimension Table

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 Id Day Month Year
C10000211 1 2 2013
C10000212 2 2 2013
C10000213 3 2 2013
C10000214 4 2 2013
C10000215 5 2 2013
C10000216 6 2 2013
C10000217 7 2 2013
C10000218 8 2 2013
C10000219 9 2 2013
C10000220 10 2 2013
C10000221 11 2 2013
C10000222 12 2 2013
C10000223 13 2 2013
C10000224 14 2 2013
C10000225 15 2 2013
C10000226 16 2 2013
C10000227 17 2 2013

Sample Data for the InvFact Measure Table

(Part 1)

Solutions for the Practice Mini Case on Data Warehouse Design

InvFactNo ProdNo SuppNo IFQty IFUnitCos IFQ IFProdPrice IFSuppDis

t OH c
I2224040 P0036566 S2029929 10 $100.00 12 $169.00 0.10

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I2224041 P0036577 S2029929 10 $200.00 10 $319.00 0.10
I2224042 P9995676 S5095332 10 $45.00 12 $89.00 0.00
I2224043 P1114590 S3399214 15 $450.00 5 $699.00 0.12
I2224044 P1556678 S3399214 10 $50.00 8 $99.00 0.12
I2224045 P3455443 S3399214 25 $21.95 24 $38.00 0.12
I2224046 P6677900 S3399214 25 $12.50 44 $25.69 0.12
I2224047 P1412138 S4290202 50 $6.50 100 $12.00 0.05
I2224048 P4200344 S4420948 15 $99.00 16 $199.99 0.08

Sample Data for the InvFact Measure Table (Part 2)

InvFactN PurchCalNo DelCalNo

o
I2224040 C10000213 C10000218
I2224041 C10000213 C10000218
I2224042 C10000213 C10000221
I2224043 C10000214 C10000219
I2224044 C10000214 C10000219
I2224045 C10000214 C10000219
I2224046 C10000214 C10000219
I2224047 C10000213 C10000218
I2224048 C10000217 C10000225

INS- 5337
Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
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