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Alternative to EAV for dynamic fields in a star schema data warehouse

I need to support dynamic fields and values in a big datawarehouse for storing API requests log, my user case is that I need to store all API requests query string and able to perform query against ...
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Best approach for populating date dimension table

I am looking to populate a date dimension table in a SQL Server 2008 database. The fields in the table are as follows: [DateId] INT IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY [DateTime] ...
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Open source and commercial tools to build dynamic queries of fact tables in star schema [closed]

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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Design star schema for relatonal database

I'm a newbie to data warehousing and I've been reading articles and watching videos on the principles but I'm a bit confused as to how I would take the design below and convert it into a star schema. ...
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