National University

Of Computer & Emerging Sciences Faisalabad -Chiniot Campus

CS 409 – Data Warehouse

Fall-2018
Sections: A & D
Assignment #3

1. You are the vice president of marketing for a nation-wide appliance manufacturer with three
production plants. Describe any three different ways you will tend to analyze your sales.
What are the business dimensions for your analysis?
2. BigBook, Inc. is a large book distributor with domestic and international distribution
channels. The company orders from publishers and distributes publications to all the leading
booksellers. Initially, you want to build a data warehouse to analyze shipments that are made
from the company’s many warehouses. Determine the metrics or facts and the business
dimensions. Prepare an information package diagram.
3. You are on the data warehouse project of Auctions Plus.com, an Internet auction company
selling upscale works of art. Your responsibility is together requirements for sales analysis.
Find out the key metrics, business dimensions, hierarchies, and categories. Draw the
information package diagram.
4. Refer back to the information package given for a hotel chainin Chapter5(Fig.5.6). Use this
information package and design a STAR schema.
5. 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
6. You are the data design specialist on the datawarehouse 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.
7. 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)
typeofdeal, 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

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2. It is an individual assignment.
3. Submit hard copy and soft copy
4. Any pledge found in assignment causes zero marks.
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