Friday, May 18, 2007 - Posts

Too Dim or not Too Dim

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No i'm not talking about a new Harry Enfield sketch about a posh bloke that's a bit thick, I 'm talking about tables in a warehouse.

Many people insist on naming tables DimCustomer, Dim Product etc and FactOrderLine. What is the purpose of this, especially in a UDM model where tables can easily be dimensions and facts. What happens then, should it be DimFactOrder or should it be FactDimOrder, sounds like something from a Chinese menu.

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posted Friday, May 18, 2007 5:54 PM by SimonSabin with 0 Comments

Irish Microsoft Conference

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I am doing my first speaking event outside of the UK. The guys organising the Irish Microsoft Technology Conference kindly invited me to speak.

Following on from and combing some previous sessions I've done I will talking about Service Broker and how it can be used to achieve asynchronous processing to greatly improve your systems.

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posted Friday, May 18, 2007 2:38 AM by SimonSabin with 0 Comments