Yes this is an interesting question, I remember we
have debated on do we use a generated key or not for
the time dimension. We used a date field as the daily
time dimension key, the time portion of the date field
was truncated.
This was in 1997.
We had 3 time dimensions , a daily one, a monthly one
and a production one ( 2 weeks of 4 days, then 1 week
of 5 days, then 2 weeks of 4 days,....)
- Jared.Still_at_radisys.com a écrit : > This
discussion raises an interesting question.
>
> Do your fact tables have a date column in them?
>
> If so, how do you correlate that with the date/time
> dimension table?
>
> If you use a local date column to control the
> partitioning rather
> than a PK from the date/time dimension, user queries
> based on
> the date/time dimension won't be able to use
> partition elimination.
>
> Personally, I see no need for a date column in the
> fact table.
>
> Jared
>
>
>
>
>
>
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> I've done that in a datawarehouse system.
> The fact tables were partitionned by date.
> Some fact tables were keeping different number of
> months : 6o, 12, 15,...
> This was handle in the metadata tables and was
> written
> with PL/SQL (Oracle 8). You can do a lot of things
> with PS/SQL.
> So the metadata was containg the table name, the
> naming convention of the partition, the naming
> convention for the tablespace, disks name, the
> number
> of partition per table, ...
> Data was moved into retention data tables then the
> partition were rolling : creation of new
> tablespaces,
> creation of new partition, moving data to the
> retention tables, dropping partition,...
>
> HTH
>
> --- Tracy Rahmlow <tracy.rahmlow_at_aexp.com> a
> écrit :
> > I am finally looking to implement partitioning and
> > have some issues with
> > rolling partitions by date. (Ie add partion p0802
> > and drop p0801) Does
> > anybody have or know of a generic
> procedure/process
> > that will allow the
> > automation of this? I envision a number of
> > parameters being passed in. For
> > example, time period & table ... Or is there an
> > alternative that I need to
> > consider? (other than manual)
> >
> > Thanks
> >
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