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The document describes a snowflake schema for a data warehouse consisting of four dimensions (Student, Course, Semester, Instructor) and two measures (Count, Average Grade). The snowflake schema diagram shows how the dimensions are normalized into multiple tables joined together. Specific MDX operations like rolling up the Semester dimension to Year are described to list average grades by student for CS courses. The number of possible cuboids for a cube with five dimension levels each is calculated to be 5^5 or 3,125 cuboids including the base and all cuboids. The similarities and differences between star and snowflake schemas are outlined. While snowflake reduces redundancy, star schemas are typically more efficient and space savings

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Assignment Data Warehousing - Odt

The document describes a snowflake schema for a data warehouse consisting of four dimensions (Student, Course, Semester, Instructor) and two measures (Count, Average Grade). The snowflake schema diagram shows how the dimensions are normalized into multiple tables joined together. Specific MDX operations like rolling up the Semester dimension to Year are described to list average grades by student for CS courses. The number of possible cuboids for a cube with five dimension levels each is calculated to be 5^5 or 3,125 cuboids including the base and all cuboids. The similarities and differences between star and snowflake schemas are outlined. While snowflake reduces redundancy, star schemas are typically more efficient and space savings

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Assignment: Advance Data Warehousing By: Majid Ali Shah. Q1.

Suppose that a data warehouse for Big-University consists of the following four dimensions; Student, Course, Semester, and instructor, and two measures count and avg grade . !hen at the lowest conceptual level "e.g., for a given student, course, semester, and instructor com#ination$, avg-grade measure stores the actual course grade of the student. %t higher conceptual levels, avg-gradestores the average grade for the given com#ination. "a$ &raw a snowfla'e schema diagram for the data warehouse.
Answer: (a) The following is the best possible Snowflake Schema Diagram for the given Data Warehouse.

semeste r semest dimension er_id table season year instruct or instructor_ dimension id table instructor_ num first_name last_name department

grade fact studen table t_id course _id semest er_id instruct or_id grade

student dimension student table _id student _num first_na me course last_na dimension course_ me table id major_i dcourse_ num depart ment

major dimension major_i dtable major_t itle depart ment

"#$ Starting with the #ase cu#oid (student; course; semester; instructor), what specific *+%, operations "e.g. roll-up from semester to year$ should one perform in order to list the average grade of CS courses for each Big-university student.
Answer: (b) Roll up instructor an! semester !imensions to "all". Roll up course !imension to !epartment an! take slice for #!epartment $ %S&.

"c$ -f each dimensions has five levels "including all$, such as .student/ ma0or / status / university / all., 1ow many cu#oids will this cu#e contain " including the #ase and ape2 cu#oids$3
Answer: (c) the number of possible cuboi!s is the pro!uct' i.e.

( Li + ( ) '
i

Where Li !enotes the number of levels in !imension i' therefore the cube contains'
) *= (+,) cuboi!s.

Q4. % data warehouse can #e modeled #y either a star schema or a snowfla'e schema. Briefly descri#e the similarities and the differences of the two models, and then analy5e their advantage and disadvantage with regard to one another. 6ive your opinion of which might #e more empirically useful; and state the reason #ehind your answer.
Answer:

The- are similar in the sense that the- all have a fact table' as well as some !imensional tables. The ma.or !ifference is that some !imension tables in the snowflake schema are normali/e!' therebfurther splitting the !ata into a!!itional tables. The a!vantage of the star schema is its simplicit-' which will enable efficienc-' but it re0uires more space. 1or the snowflake schema' it re!uces some re!un!anc- b- sharing common tables: the tables are easto maintain an! save some space. 2owever' it is less efficient an! the saving of space is negligible in comparison with the t-pical magnitu!e of the fact table. Therefore' empiricall-' the star schema is better simpl- because efficienc- t-picall- has higher prioritover space as long as the space re0uirement is not too huge. 3n in!ustr-' sometimes the !ata from a snowflake schema ma- be !e normali/e! into a star schema to spee! up processing. Another option is to use a snowflake schema to maintain !imensions' an! then present users with the same !ata collapse! into a star.

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