http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/forum-usage-questions-and-tips-f3/-t1.htm Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:37:47 GMT 10 http://kimballgroup.com/images/KGlogoBasic.gif http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/forum-usage-questions-and-tips-f3/-t1.htm http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/forum-usage-questions-and-tips-f3/how-can-i-get-an-rss-feed-of-this-forum-t27.htm warrent
It turns out our forum provider has a built-in RSS feed capability. The RSS feed for this forum is: [url=forum.kimballgroup.com/rss]forum.kimballgroup.com/rss[/url]]]> Forum Usage: questions and tips Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:22:28 GMT http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/forum-usage-questions-and-tips-f3/how-can-i-get-an-rss-feed-of-this-forum-t27.htm#63 http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/forum-usage-questions-and-tips-f3/how-can-i-get-an-rss-feed-of-this-forum-t27.htm http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/forum-usage-questions-and-tips-f3/best-source-of-training-material-for-beginners-t215.htm tiith
Can anyone please give some good recommendations that will get me up and running?]]> Forum Usage: questions and tips Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:37:47 GMT http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/forum-usage-questions-and-tips-f3/best-source-of-training-material-for-beginners-t215.htm#924 http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/forum-usage-questions-and-tips-f3/best-source-of-training-material-for-beginners-t215.htm http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/forum-usage-questions-and-tips-f3/dw-bi-info-t130.htm mgtakahashi
I am currently a Programmer Analyst. I develop using VB6, VB.Net, C#, T-SQL. I would like to get more involve in data warehouse. Which of the Kimball book's should I start reading, and then after?

Thank you,

Marcio]]> Forum Usage: questions and tips Wed, 06 May 2009 21:38:51 GMT http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/forum-usage-questions-and-tips-f3/dw-bi-info-t130.htm#566 http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/forum-usage-questions-and-tips-f3/dw-bi-info-t130.htm http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/forum-usage-questions-and-tips-f3/suggestion-an-introduce-yourself-subforum-t209.htm PeterNolan Hi All, I am called Peter Nolan and I've been around BI for a long time. It's wonderful to see Ralph has now created a forum on this site. I'm really pleased to be here. It has been many years since dwlist went away and there has been no really good point of discusssion about data modeling and ETL since....IT Toolbox lacks a bit I feel. I hope that this will be a place I can contribute back a bit of what I have learned over the years. Anyway, my first suggestion for people to discuss ... Forum Usage: questions and tips Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:43:17 GMT http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/forum-usage-questions-and-tips-f3/suggestion-an-introduce-yourself-subforum-t209.htm#904 http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/forum-usage-questions-and-tips-f3/suggestion-an-introduce-yourself-subforum-t209.htm http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/forum-usage-questions-and-tips-f3/security-etl-t168.htm milmidz and I am very interested in the integrity of data]]> Forum Usage: questions and tips Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:42:00 GMT http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/forum-usage-questions-and-tips-f3/security-etl-t168.htm#781 http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/forum-usage-questions-and-tips-f3/security-etl-t168.htm http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/forum-usage-questions-and-tips-f3/cbip-certification-tdwi-t131.htm dwbi_rb Has anyone prepared for CBIP?

Just wondered to get some inputs on this certification from TDWI.]]> Forum Usage: questions and tips Fri, 08 May 2009 16:11:20 GMT http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/forum-usage-questions-and-tips-f3/cbip-certification-tdwi-t131.htm#568 http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/forum-usage-questions-and-tips-f3/cbip-certification-tdwi-t131.htm http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/forum-usage-questions-and-tips-f3/a-question-had-no-reply-t98.htm jglickma I saw something about drinking the KoolAid in one of the post something about a boss disagreeing with some implementation or something about claiming to be a Kimball devotee and then disagreeing with everything the architect has designed, something to that effect... I find in my travels since I started with DW when Ralph's first book just came out ( I admit it took some time before I appreciated this man's accomplishments and apparent reveling of common sense approach to data ... Forum Usage: questions and tips Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:43:35 GMT http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/forum-usage-questions-and-tips-f3/a-question-had-no-reply-t98.htm#430 http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/forum-usage-questions-and-tips-f3/a-question-had-no-reply-t98.htm http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/forum-usage-questions-and-tips-f3/question-nulls-as-dimension-attributes-t71.htm Lillian Talbot I'm wondering if this is a common practice to add the following 2 'standard' attributes to dimension tables. For example: I have a TRANSACTION_DIM table, I have these 2 'standard' attributes (plus the rest of the business attributes) transaction_type, and transaction_type_desc These two 2 'standard' attributes allow me to : 1) provide a description of whether a dimension row exists or not (or not known) when joined to the Fact. Example: transaction_type = NA, and ... Forum Usage: questions and tips Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:47:59 GMT http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/forum-usage-questions-and-tips-f3/question-nulls-as-dimension-attributes-t71.htm#337 http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/forum-usage-questions-and-tips-f3/question-nulls-as-dimension-attributes-t71.htm http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/forum-usage-questions-and-tips-f3/how-to-contact-other-members-or-have-them-contact-you-t28.htm warrent ) in the post or in their profile. This will allow you to communicate directly with them and still maintain email address privacy.

By the way, I think the private message button is labeled MP instead of PM because the organization that hosts the forum server is French.]]> Forum Usage: questions and tips Sat, 07 Feb 2009 01:47:37 GMT http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/forum-usage-questions-and-tips-f3/how-to-contact-other-members-or-have-them-contact-you-t28.htm#93 http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/forum-usage-questions-and-tips-f3/how-to-contact-other-members-or-have-them-contact-you-t28.htm http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/forum-usage-questions-and-tips-f3/problems-with-blocked-images-from-hitskincom-t20.htm caderoux
Some (not all) of the buttons on the site are hosted a hitskin.com, which is either blocked by my workplace, or isn't working.

There probably should be a section for forum questions like this which do not fit into other categories.]]> Forum Usage: questions and tips Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:29:59 GMT http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/forum-usage-questions-and-tips-f3/problems-with-blocked-images-from-hitskincom-t20.htm#52 http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/forum-usage-questions-and-tips-f3/problems-with-blocked-images-from-hitskincom-t20.htm http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/forum-usage-questions-and-tips-f3/how-to-include-an-image-in-your-post-t8.htm Admin If you'd like to include an image in your post, a screen capture of a table, or data rows, for example, here's how to do it. Since you can't upload images directly to the forum, so you have to host your images somewhere else. It turns out there are lots of sites out there created to meet this exact need. I put the following image on www.freeimagehosting.net. All you do is go to the website, upload your image, and paste the resulting links into your posts as needed. If someone clicks ... Forum Usage: questions and tips Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:12:04 GMT http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/forum-usage-questions-and-tips-f3/how-to-include-an-image-in-your-post-t8.htm#13 http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/forum-usage-questions-and-tips-f3/how-to-include-an-image-in-your-post-t8.htm