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Open source and commercial tools to build dynamic queries of fact tables in star schema

What user interfaces or tools (commercial and/or open source) can query a star schema model (Ralph Kimball dimensional model)? So for example, if we have X fact tables, and Y dimension tables, and Z ...
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Data warehouse support tickets

I'm starting to design a data warehouse for a company. The first questions we're trying to resolve are regarding their support ticketing system. My initial schema is as follows Now one of the ...
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Does surrogate key assignment for a fact table require that the source data has natural keys?

Let's say I have a simple OLTP database with orders, products, and customers: And from it, I am building a data mart with an orders fact table, product dimension, customer dimension, and date ...