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Information Systems Program

Module 3
Data Warehouse Design Practices
and Methodologies

Lesson 5: Schema Integration Process


Lesson Objectives
• Explain steps in the schema integration process
• Apply merge transformation to simple data
sources
• Apply flatten transformation to simple data
sources

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Overview of Schema Integration
• Combine small number of data sources
• Business intelligence requirements
– Decisions
– Measures
– Wish lists
• Data sources as raw materials to satisfy business
intelligence requirements
• Apply schema integration process as part of a
methodology for many data sources

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Schema Integration Steps
Specify
dimensions
and measures

Determine grains
and estimate fact
table sizes

Create initial
table design

Analyze
summarizabili
ty

Map data
sources and
populate
tables

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Design Transformations
• Used in third and fourth step of schema
integration methodology
• Merge and flatten transformations to simplify fact
table design
• History transformations for historical integrity
• Summarizability patterns for dimension and
dimension-fact problems

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Merge Transformation
• Design transformation to integrate source
schemas
• Applies to source tables representing dimensions
and measures
• One source table from each data source
combines into a single data warehouse table
• Sometimes combine multiple tables from the
same data source

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Merge Transformation for a Dimension
Table
Data source i
Customer
CustId
CustName
Data warehouse design
CustAddr CustomerDim
CustBal
CustId
CustFirstName
CustLastName
Data source j CustCity
Shopper CustState
ShopNo CustZip
ShopFirstName CustBal
ShopLastName
ShopStreet
ShopCity
ShopState
ShopZip

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Flatten Transformation
• Design transformation to simplify fact table
design
• Two level table design for business transactions
– Parent entity type with transaction heading
– Child entity type with item details
• Combine two level design into a single fact table

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Flatten Transformation Example I
Source database design
Registration
RegNo
RegCompDate
Data warehouse design
RegTerm EnrollFact
RegYear
StdNo EnrollNo
EnrollCompDate
EnrollTerm
EnrollYear
StdNo
Enrollment OfferNo

RegNo
OfferNo
EnrGrade

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Flatten Transformation Example II
Source database design
ShoppingCart
ShopCartNo
SCDate Data warehouse design
CustNo
ShopCartItemFact
ShopCartItemNo
SCIDate
CustNo
ProdNo
ShopCartItem
ShopCartNo
ProdNo
SCIQty

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Flatten Applicability
• Close time proximity for heading and details of a
business transaction
• Mostly related items and measures tracked for
heading and details of a business transaction
• Ability to capture the heading and details of a
business transaction into a data warehouse
without undue wait for completion of details

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Summary
• Process provides a sequence of steps applied to
a pair of data sources
• Emphasis on integration and simplification using
transformations
• Merge transformation to combine dimensions and
measures
• Flatten transformation to reduce detail for fact
tables
• Apply data integration process on practice case
and assignment
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