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Post  eesha Fri Sep 07, 2012 4:31 pm

I need help understanding how the dimensions should be designed and why?
Here is my scenario -
We have two different business entities
Customer -- Someone whom we have already serviced or currently servicing
Account -- Someone whom we might have serviced, currently servicing, or not serviced at all

Not every account becomes a customer and not every customer has to be in account . 99.9% sure it is one-to-one relationship (currently, working to verify 0.1% case)

Both combined are less than 2M records.

For sake of argument at us assume –
Customer and Account have same attributes.
• Should Customer and Account be modeled as different dimension?
• Should Customer and Account be 1 dimension with ‘Type’ column identity each row ?

Customer and Account have few different attributes.
• Should Customer and Account be modeled as different dimension?
• Should Customer and Account be 1 dimension with ‘Type’ column identity each row and on Account row, the customer specific attributes can be set as ‘NULL’ or ‘NA’ and vice versa?


Opinion? Suggestion? Advice?

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Post  yuldashev Mon Sep 10, 2012 3:29 pm

Hi eesha,

Can you describe your transactions? How are the two business entities used in the business?

Thanks,
Alisher
www.streebo.com
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Post  chumeniuk Wed Sep 12, 2012 9:00 pm

In my past experiences, we had prospects and customers in the same dimension with a status that differentiated the two. I would assume that your source system converts the Account record to a Customer record. This would probably be a type 2 dimension so you can track if/when the account converts.

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