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Data Warehouse Design Practices and Methodologies: Lesson 2: Table Design Patterns

This document discusses data warehouse design practices. It provides examples of star schema, snowflake schema, and constellation schema patterns. It also discusses representing time dimensions, maintaining historical integrity for dimensions, and different approaches like type I, II, and III representations for preserving historical changes to dimension data.

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Data Warehouse Design Practices and Methodologies: Lesson 2: Table Design Patterns

This document discusses data warehouse design practices. It provides examples of star schema, snowflake schema, and constellation schema patterns. It also discusses representing time dimensions, maintaining historical integrity for dimensions, and different approaches like type I, II, and III representations for preserving historical changes to dimension data.

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Krizza B. Cruz
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Module 3
Data Warehouse Design Practices
and Methodologies

Lesson 2: Table Design Patterns


Lesson Objectives
Explain schema patterns
Explain patterns for historical integrity
Reflect on the importance of historical integrity

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Star Schema Example
Store
Item StoreId
ItemId StoreManager
ItemName StoreStreet
ItemUnitPrice StoreCity
ItemBrand StoreSales StoreState
ItemCategory StoreZip
StoreNation
ItemSales DivId
Sales DivName
SalesNo
DivManager
SalesUnits
SalesDollar
Customer SalesCost
TimeDim
CustId TimeNo
CustName TimeSales TimeDay
CustPhone TimeMonth
CustStreet CustSales TimeQuarter
CustCity TimeYear
CustState TimeDayOfWeek
CustZip TimeFiscalYear
CustNation
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Constellation Schema Example
Supplier
SuppId Inventory
SuppName InvNo
SuppCity SuppInv InvQOH StoreInv
SuppState InvCost
SuppZip InvReturns
SuppNation

ItemInv
Store
Item StoreId
ItemId StoreManager
ItemName StoreStreet
ItemUnitPrice StoreCity
ItemBrand StoreSales StoreState TimeInv
ItemCategory StoreZip
StoreNation
ItemSales DivId
Sales DivName
SalesNo
DivManager
SalesUnits
SalesDollar
Customer SalesCost
TimeDim
CustId TimeNo
CustName TimeSales TimeDay
CustPhone TimeMonth
CustStreet CustSales TimeQuarter
CustCity TimeYear
CustState TimeDayOfWeek
CustZip TimeFiscalYear
CustNation
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Snowflake Schema Example

Item
ItemId Store
ItemName StoreId
ItemUnitPrice Division
StoreManager
ItemBrand DivId
StoreStreet
ItemCategory
StoreSales DivStore DivName
StoreCity
DivManager
StoreState
ItemSales Sales StoreZip
SalesNo StoreNation
SalesUnits
SalesDollar
Customer SalesCost
TimeSales TimeDim
CustId TimeNo
CustName TimeDay
CustPhone TimeMonth
CustStreet CustSales TimeQuarter
CustCity TimeYear
CustState TimeDayOfWeek
CustZip TimeFiscalYear
CustNation

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Time Representation for Fact Tables
Alternatives
Timestamp
Time dimension table for organization specific calendar
features
Variations
Time of day columns
Accumulating fact table for representation of multiple
events

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Historical Integrity for Dimensions
Primarily an issue for dimension changes
Fact rows no longer historically accurate after a
dimension update
Determine importance of history preservation for
dimension columns
Some inaccuracy tolerated with summary query
results

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Historical Integrity Examples

Type II Representation Type III Representation


Type I Representation Customer
Customer CustId
Customer CustId CustName
CustId VersionNo CustPhone
CustName CustStreet
CustName CustCityCurr
CustPhone
CustPhone CustStreet CustCityCurrBegEffDate
CustStreet CustCityCurrEndEffDate
CustCity
CustCityPrev
CustCity CustCityBegEffDate CustCityPrevBegEffDate
CustState CustCityEndEffDate CustCityPrevEndEffDate
CustZip CustState CustCityPast
CustNation CustZip CustCityPastBegEffDate
CustNation CustCityPastEndEffDate
CustState
CustZip
CustNation

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Summary
Schema patterns especially the constellation
schema for shared fact tables
Time representation for fact tables
Historical integrity for dimensions

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