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Well, wish we knew for sure what they want to do :-) Basically, they want a repository for historical data. Not a huge amount of financial data involved, more service related (government program administered by the states). Most reporting will be on participation but also some caseload based reporting.<br />
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I was hoping that if you had a properly indexed database with FK relationships, there would be a utility that would analyze the data and give a good starting-point for the data warehouse schema that you could then fine-tune.<br />
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Guess I'll have to jump in and get my feet wet.<br />
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Thanks for the feedback.
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Well, wish we knew for sure what they want to do :-) Basically, they want a repository for historical data. Not a huge amount of financial data involved, more service related (government program administered by the states). Most reporting will be on participation but also some caseload based reporting.

I was hoping that if you had a properly indexed database with FK relationships, there would be a utility that would analyze the data and give a good starting-point for the data warehouse schema that you could then fine-tune.

Guess I'll have to jump in and get my feet wet.

Thanks for the feedback.

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Are there any tools that will allow you to select relevant tables in an OLTP database and analyze the data and suggest a layout for a data warehouse/data mart?<br />
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How about some recommended reading for a &quot;pulled myself up by the bootstraps&quot; database developer (just learned as I went) on designing and implementing a data warehouse/data mart. I think what we are going for is actually a data warehouse, but the customer wants it called a data mart :-)
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Are there any tools that will allow you to select relevant tables in an OLTP database and analyze the data and suggest a layout for a data warehouse/data mart?

How about some recommended reading for a "pulled myself up by the bootstraps" database developer (just learned as I went) on designing and implementing a data warehouse/data mart. I think what we are going for is actually a data warehouse, but the customer wants it called a data mart :-)

Building a Data Mart

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is a suite of relational database management system (RDBMS) products providing multi-user database access functionality.Component services include integration (SSIS), reporting (SSRS), analysis (SSAS), data quality, master data, T-SQL and performance tuning. Major improvements include the  Always On technologies and support for unstructured data types.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008

SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) is an online analytical processing (OLAP) and data mining tool in Microsoft SQL Server used as a tool by organizations to analyze and make sense of information possibly spread out across multiple databases, or in disparate tables or files. Analysis Services includes a group of OLAP and data mining capabilities and comes in two flavors - Multidimensional and Tabular.