Re: How to change ETL layer dynamically?
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 04:48:28 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <398b1e6c-6799-4575-bc55-7b9411ed0b1c_at_q23g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>
On Mar 24, 8:44 am, Geoff Muldoon <geoff.muld..._at_trap.gmail.com> wrote:
> In article <eed0e313-0f02-4a83-ba87-1623c9045ab3_at_
> 19g2000yqu.googlegroups.com>, guser78 says...
>
> > We have to create a Datamart containing the Customer characteristics
> > like 'Heavy Buyer; Chocolate lover' etc., and this has to be done by
> > evaluating the relevant attributes in the Data ware house tables.
> > But, in our case, the definition of Customer characteristics can
> > change occasionally based on the new market conditions.
>
> > This means that we should allow the dynamic administration of the
> > definition of Customer characteristics.
>
> > Please guide me on we can do this from an Application which uses the
> > Datamart as the backend. Do we need to write an additional software
> > module (for e.g. JDBC) to interpret the 'write' requests coming from
> > the Application, and adapt the ETL layer accordingly?
>
> Google: "slowly changing dimensions"
If my requirement was not understood, here is the requirement I have: All raw tables related to the Customer are located in the Datawarehouse, and the specific Customer characteristics for each of the Customer should be evaluated regularly at run time, and loaded onto the 'Datamart' tables.
My concern in the original post was more on whether I can change the 'Transform' portion at run time.
For example, I might have calculated whether a customer is a 'Chocolate lover' based on whether he is buying some specific brands. At run time, my administrators of my 'Marketing' application should be able to change the definition of how the 'Chocolate lover' is calculated, maybe by adding/removing the brands, or/and by adding an additional criteria of checking the no. of chocolate packs that were sold out.
I went through the information on different types of SDCs that are
possible. In my case, it has to be 'Type 1' (no need to maintain the
history of changes).
I understand that this defines how the changes should be stored in the
'Datamart' for each of the load done by the ETL layer. But, my concern
is on how I can change the 'Transform' SQL statements during run time.
Received on Wed Mar 24 2010 - 06:48:28 CDT