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How to handle “many columns” in OLAP RDBMS

I have a fact that has around 1K different numerical attributes (i.e. columns). I would like to store this in to a column-oriented DB and perform cube analysis on it. I tried to design a star ...
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Should I snowflake or duplicate it across my facts?

I'm building up a data warehouse to be used by SSAS to create cubes on, and I'm debating between two possible schemas. In my warehouse, I've got two different fact tables that tracking daily changes ...
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IP Address lookup star schema design

I am working on a project in which we need to do IP Address lookups. So for this we have got the datasets and now the next steps is to populate this datasets in to the table. And then have some ...
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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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Cardinality rule for bitmap indexes

The Oracle documentation includes the following advice: A bitmap index should be built on each of the foreign key columns of the fact table or tables In that reference, there is even a bitmap ...