BI Thoughts and Theories

Stuart Ozer on the SQL Server Customer Advisory Team (CAT) has posted a new tool to CodePlex to help with the management of "staging" tables for swapping data in and out of partitioned tables. Since this is a common scenario in data warehousing Read More...

A question was posted on the MSDN forums about validating that there are no overlapping rows in a slowly changing dimension (SCD). It is common to use a start and end date in a type 2 SCD to designate when each version of the dimension member was in effect. Read More...