The persistent layer contains as set of persistent tables that record the full history of changes to the data of the table/query that is the source of the Persistent table. The source could a source table/file, a source query, another staging table or a view/materialized view in the transform layer. In a persistent table there…
This post is the first in a series of detailed cases studies discussing the ETL strategies that can be used when a Persistent staging layer is included in your Data Warehouse. It’s intended as a reference for developers using Dimodelo Data Warehouse Studio, our Data Warehouse Automation tool to quickly build a Data Warehouse. It’s…
Dimodelo Solutions is proud to announce the release of version 2.15 of Dimodelo Data Warehouse Studio, its data warehouse automation tool for the Microsoft data platform. In this release we have added support for the Microsoft APS platform and SQL Server 2017. We have also redesigned our data management architecture from the ground up, introducing…
At Dimodelo, we have been hard at work, redesigning the Data Warehouse data management architecture that Dimodelo Data Warehouse Studio (our Data Warehouse Automation tool) generates. Working with our clients we have introduced a Persistent Layer into the data warehouse architecture. “What is a Persistent Layer?” I hear you ask. The persistent layer contains as…
The latest version of SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT), unlike previous versions can be installed either standalone or as a plug-in to existing an Community, Professional or Enterprise version of Visual Studio 2015. This guide helps you understand if you need/want to licence Visual Studio 2015 with SSDT for Visual Studio 2015. To set up a…
How do you gather requirements for a Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence project ? Typically, on a BI project, if you ask a business user, ‘what do you want’ you will get one of 2 responses. I don’t know. I want everything. Which are, effectively, the same thing… As much as it pains IT people to hear…
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[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” text_font_size=”14″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Dimodelo Data Warehouse Studio now allows you to extract only changed data from your source system, reducing load on your source systems and overall ETL duration. I.e. To do change data capture (CDC) at the source. Dimodelo Data Warehouse Studio now includes a managed…
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” text_font_size=”14″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” custom_margin=”0px|||”] This video demonstrates using Dimodelo Data Warehouse Studio (a data warehouse automation tool) to generate a data warehouse using Freshbooks as a source. Freshbooks is a SaaS provider for timesheets and invoicing. Using ODBC drivers (like those provided by CData) Dimodelo Data Warehouse…
The following enhancements have been made in Dimodelo Data Warehouse Studio 2015 2.9: Monitor and Analyse your ETL batches. Dimodelo now writes its ETL batch execution log to an SQL Server database. New PowerBI dashboards have been created to help you monitor and analyse your ETL batches. Support for ODBC Sources. Connect to just about…
