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Data Warehousing Assignment

This document outlines data warehousing assignments for three groups. Group 1 is asked questions about key business subjects, data sources, and operational applications for various companies. Group 2 is asked questions about tasks to web-enable a data warehouse, a proposal for business intelligence, trends helping data warehousing, and strategic information for an airline. Group 3 is asked to review dimension tables and attributes for a distribution company, design a STAR schema with a factless fact table to track hospital patients, and design another STAR schema to track production quantities for a manufacturing company.

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Data Warehousing Assignment

This document outlines data warehousing assignments for three groups. Group 1 is asked questions about key business subjects, data sources, and operational applications for various companies. Group 2 is asked questions about tasks to web-enable a data warehouse, a proposal for business intelligence, trends helping data warehousing, and strategic information for an airline. Group 3 is asked to review dimension tables and attributes for a distribution company, design a STAR schema with a factless fact table to track hospital patients, and design another STAR schema to track production quantities for a manufacturing company.

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Data Warehousing Assignment

Group1:
1. A data warehouse is subject-oriented. What would be the major critical business subjects for the
following companies? a. an international manufacturing company b. a local community bank c. a
domestic hotel chain
2. You are the data analyst on the project team building a data warehouse for an insurance
company. List the possible data sources from which you will bring the data into your data
warehouse. State your assumptions.
3. For an airlines company, identify three operational applications that would feed into the data
warehouse. What would be the data load and refresh cycles?
4. Prepare a table showing all the potential users and information delivery methods for a data
warehouse supporting a large national grocery chain.

Group2:
1. Your company is in the business of renting DVDs and video tapes. The company has recently
entered into e-business and the senior management wants to make the existing data warehouse
Web-enabled. List and describe any three of the major tasks required for satisfying the
management’s directive.
2. You are a senior analyst in the IT department of a company manufacturing automobile parts.
The marketing VP is complaining about the poor response by IT in providing strategic
information. Draft a proposal to him introducing the concept of business intelligence and how
data warehousing and analytics as part of business intelligence for your company would be the
optimal solution.
3. The current trends in hardware/software technology make data warehousing feasible. Explain
with some examples how exactly technology trends do help.
4. For an airline company, how can strategic information increase the number of frequent flyers?
Discuss giving specific details.

Group3:
1. In a STAR schema to track the shipments for a distribution company, the following dimension
tables are found: (1) time, (2) customer ship-to, (3) ship-from, (4) product, (5) type of deal, and
(6) mode of shipment. Review these dimensions and list the possible attributes for each of the
dimension tables. Also, designate a primary key for each table.
2. What is a factless fact table? Design a simple STAR schema with a factless fact table to track
patients in a hospital by diagnostic procedures and time.
3. You are the data design specialist on the data warehouse project team for a manufacturing
company. Design a STAR schema to track the production quantities. Production quantities are
normally analyzed along the business dimensions of product, time, parts used, production
facility, and production run. State your assumptions.
4. What is a factless fact table? Design a simple STAR schema with a factless fact table to track
patients in a hospital by diagnostic procedures and time.

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