Hi folks,My questions today are about basic design of a Data Warehouse Solution.In my organization a Data Warehouse using the Inmon’s approach was implemented. That’s means, we have a big highly normalized DW. I want to build a Data Mart for a particular group of business users and I have several basic doubts. Suppose that the level of granularity are the sum of the sales price of the articles in every invoice, the sum of the quantities, customer, article, data of purchase and country:- Is it better to perform sums operation during the ETL Process and stored the data in the Data Mart with this granularity or store the data with a low granularity (i.e. one line per article per invoice) and then create views with this aggregation operations?- If I have to create 4 measures groups which have in common 3 dimensions, let´s say customer, article and date, and other specific dimension like return reason, sales type or credit note reason. Is it better to create a big denormalized fact table with all of the required dimensions and then create a view as data source for each measure group or maybe is better to manipulate these details direct in SSAS?- Can anyone of you mention or post a link with some guideline to decide whether is more appropriate to calculate something during the ETL, in the Views that feed the SSAS cubes, in the Data Source Views in SSAS or with MDX?The question that I have to answer is what is better, to simplify the ETL process, which is currently very complex and hard to maintain, using SSAS features. My colleagues want to replace the current ETL with a restore backup of the relevant table of the DW in the DM. I think a complete redesign is needed and the ETL process should not be replace but could be simplify with a better design of the DM.I know my question is too general that is not easy to give a specific answer, I just want to get some best practices from your experience. Any comment would be highly appreciated. Best Regards,
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