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  • Finding the maximum value/date across columns

    While working on some code recently I discovered a neat little trick to find the maximum value across several columns….. So the starting point was finding the maximum date across several related tables and storing the maximum value against an aggregated record. Here's the sample setup code: USE TEMPDB...
    Posted to Atul Thakor (Weblog) by AtulThakor on Mon, Nov 21 2011
  • Time dimension - What should the key be?

    We are currently implementing a data warehouse and the design of the time dimension was recently being done. Firstly it was agreed that day and time should be split out. Combining the two into one dimension is nuts your dimension would be huge and unworkable. So considering the day dimension what should...
    Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Tue, Jun 26 2007
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