Thursday, August 16, 2012

Introduction to Dimensions

What is a Dimension Table?

A dimension table provides the description behind the analytic numbers.  It describes the who, what, when, where and why behind the facts. Dimensions are normally broken down into groups (tables) and they contain several attributes (columns).   Unlike a fact table the dimension table is not normalized.  Generally, dimension tables have many columns but a limited amount of rows. 
Dimension tables normally provide two purposes in a data warehouse, it can be used to filter queries and to select data.

Building a Data Warehouse with SQL Server

What is a Data Warehouse?

In its simplest form a Data Warehouse is a way to store data information and facts in an format that is informational.  Hopefully, you were able to pull this information from the photos above.   Personally, I like to think of a Data Warehouse as a tool used by decision makers to improve decision‐making.

Friday, July 13, 2012

5 Faktor Kegagalan Implementasi BI


Tidak semua implementasi Business Intelligence (BI) pasti berhasil di lakukan sesuai dengan yang diharapkan. Beberapa faktor yang dapat mengakibatkan kegagalan yang sangat perlu diperhatikan dan dipertimbangkan antara lain sebagai berikut :
  1. Pemahaman Konsep dan Sistem BI yang Salah

    Sebelum Anda memutuskan melakukan implementasi BI sebagai aplikasi pendukung keputusan yang sangat strategis, sangat dianjurkan pengguna dapat mengetahui sebelumnya pemahaman konsep-konsep dasar dari BI itu sendiri.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

set prompt date to default value

Membuat tanggal default prompt date:
drag Date Prompt kedalam body page,
drag HTML Item dan pastekan syntax berikut:

<script language="javascript">
var dDate = new Date();
dDate.setDate(dDate.getDate()-1);
pickerControlStartDate.setValue(getFormatDate(dDate, 0, 'YMD'));
</script>


kemudian klik pada bagian prompt date dan scroll kebawah dibagian Properties
untuk properti Name beri nama: StartDate

Outputnya prompt date akan tampil dengan nilai default tanggal H-1.

createdBy. @aankdavid

step for coloring on grid table

go to Condition Explorer >
create Boolean Variable and paste below function on expression definition:
mod (RowNumber (),2)

go to Page Explorer >
select cell on crosstab
on properties, define Style Variable >
chose Variable Boolean1

chose 'Yes' on Boolean1 when you click Condition Explorer
and change background color to red

chose 'No' on Boolean1 when you click Condition Explorer
and change background color to pink

finish.

createdBy. @aankdavid