BI Practical No.3
BI Practical No.3
BI Practical No.3
Practical No.3
a. Create the Data staging area for the selected database.
b. Create the cube with suitable dimension and fact tables based on ROLAP, MOLAP and HOLAP model.
Practical No.3(a). Create the Data staging area for the selected database.
Staging Area:
A staging area, or landing zone, is an intermediate storage area used for data processing during the extract,
transform and load (ETL) process. The data staging area sits between the data source(s) and the data target(s),
which are often data warehouses, data marts, or other data repositories
To create a staging area, we have to use SSDT tool and create a new project as
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Right Click on Data Source Option and Select New Data Source from Solution Explorer as
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Step2: Now we will create data source View to visualize the Data Source.
For this right click on Data Source View Option and select New Data Source View
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Practical No.3(b). Create the cube with suitable dimension and fact tables based on ROLAP, MOLAP
and HOLAP model.
Dimension Table
A Dimension Table is a table in a star schema of a data warehouse. Data warehouses are built
using dimensional data models which consist of fact and dimension tables. Dimension tables are used to
describe dimensions; they contain dimension keys, values and attributes.
Fact Table
A fact table is found at the center of a star schema or snowflake schema surrounded by dimension tables. A fact
table consists of facts of a particular business process e.g., sales revenue by month by product. Facts are also known
as measurements or metrics. A fact table record captures a measurement or a metric.
Cube
Cubes are data processing units composed of fact tables and dimensions from the data warehouse. They provide
multidimensional views of data, querying and analytical capabilities to clients.
Cube
and select New
Right Click on Cube
To create a cube right click on Cube and select New Cube as
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