Data warehouse

Design & Development

1
 Key Important Points during design
process
• Business requirement

• Data Quality

• Integration, compliance, and security

• Set the boundaries

2
 Development
• Change data capture
– On data source or after extraction ??
– How is the impact on dimension table ?

• Extraction
– It is transferring data from sources system to the
DW/BI

3
• Data staging
– Save the extracted data

• Archiving
– Deal with compliance-sensitive data

4
 Dimensions and Fact Tables
• Dimension
– Stable entities : customers, products, locations,
marketing promotion

• Fact
– Numeric measurements or observations gathered
by all transaction processing systems

• Why need to separate ?

5
• Ex: red ballpoint pen was sold at $ 2
– Product dimension : ballpoint pen
– ‘red’ is attribute of ballpoint pen
– $2 is an observed fact

• Fact records exist IF and only IF a

measurement event takes place
– > the fundamental of the data warehouse

6
 Assignment
• Reading
– Chapter 1 – 4 main text book

• Initiate Project
– Define role of each member