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Author Looking for advice/feedback
Greg

2006-02-03, 8:23 pm

Looking for any advice/feedback. My database background is more in OLTP
systems, but I am studying to get familiar with OLAP. The layout below is
my best effort to date.



Purpose

I am working on building a data mart at my company with the purpose of
comparing current sales against budget and prior year.



Data available from OLTP systems

Budgeting system - Monthly sales, Cases, and Margin per customer. As part
of the ETL process I will break the numbers down by the week.

Ordering system - Shipped cases, Net Sales, and Margin per product per
order.



Budget tables
Fact: Budget (Sales $, Cases, Margin $)

Dimensions: Warehouse, Account (including sales category and salesperson),
Time



Budget Dimensions
Customers - Country, State, City, Name

Category - Category, Customer Name

Salesperson - Salesperson, Customer Name

Warehouse - Country, State, City, Name

Time - Year, Quarter, Month, Week



Sales tables

Fact: Sales (shipped cases, Sales $, Margin $)

Dimensions: Product, Warehouse, Account (including sales category and
salesperson), Time



Sales Dimensions
Product - Type, Commodity, Description

Customers - Country, State, City, Name

Category - Category, Customer Name

Salesperson - Salesperson, Customer Name

Warehouse - Country, State, City, Name

Time - Year, Quarter, Month, Week



The Warehouse, Account, and Time dimensions will be shared between both
cubes.



Thanks,

Greg


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