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Exercise 1

This document outlines the first part of an exercise to create a simple cube for Cronus, focusing on sales data per customer and currency. It details the steps for extracting data from a SQL Server database, creating a staging database, and transferring data to a data warehouse. Upon completion, the exercise will result in a data warehouse containing three tables with customer, invoice line, and item information.

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Exercise 1

This document outlines the first part of an exercise to create a simple cube for Cronus, focusing on sales data per customer and currency. It details the steps for extracting data from a SQL Server database, creating a staging database, and transferring data to a data warehouse. Upon completion, the exercise will result in a data warehouse containing three tables with customer, invoice line, and item information.

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Exercise 1

Creating a Simple Cube: Part I

Description

This is the first of a two part exercise in which we will build a simple cube for Cronus.

The cube will contain information about sales in amount per customer and currency.

In this part of the exercise, we will extract the data from the Cronus SQL Server database,
transfer it into a staging database and finally store it in the data warehouse.

When creating the databases for the training remember to replace the “xx” in front of the
suggested database name with the Student Number that the instructor assigns to you. For
example, if you are Student02, the name of the Staging Database that you will create will be
“02StageCronus” instead of “xxStageCronus”.

After completing the exercise you will have

 Created a new project  Created a data warehouse database


 Added a business unit  Copied data from the staging
 Created a staging database database to the data warehouse
 Added a SQL Server data source  Deployed and executed the project
 Extracted data from the data source
into the staging database

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Tasks

1. Create a new project

Name Cronus Training

2. Add a new business unit

Name Cronus

3. Use the following information to create the staging database

Name CronusStage
Server name .\Training
Database xxStageCronus

Remember to click the Create button

4. Add a Dynamics NAV Adapter data source to the business unit


Click ‘Wizard Setup’
Choose ‘Microsoft SQL Server’ as provider type

Name Cronus
Server name .\Training
Database Cronus

5. Click OK in next three windows

6. Check the box to ‘Use’ company in the data source

7. Read the objects from the data source by right-clicking on the new data source and selecting
‘Read Objects’

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8. Select the following data from the data source

Table Name Field Name


Customer Country/Region Code
No.
Name
Item No.
Description
Sales Invoice Line Sell-to Customer No.
Amount
No.

Add a new data warehouse database

Name CronusDWH
Server name .\Training
Database xxCronusDWH

Remember to click the Create button

9. Copy all tables from the staging database to the data warehouse by dragging the tables one by
one from the staging database to the data warehouse or by dragging the ‘Table’-node on the
staging database to the ‘Table’-node on the data warehouse.
Click ‘Add as new table’ when asked.

10. Deploy- and execute the project

11. Review the contents of the tables on the data warehouse, using the ‘Preview Table’ function

Results

After completing this exercise you will have a data warehouse with 3 tables containing
information about customers, invoice lines and items.

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