Best Practices for MSBI · Extracting data from source systems‚ transforming it‚ and then loading it into a data warehouse · Structuring the data in the warehouse as either third normal form tables or in a star/snowflake schema that is not normalized · Moving the data into data marts‚ where it is often managed by a multidimensional engine · Reporting in its broadest sense‚ which takes place from data in the warehouse and/or the data marts: reporting can take the
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Etch-A-Sketch Ethics The Ohio Art Company is perhaps best known as the producer of one of the top-selling toys of all time‚ the venerable Etch-A-Sketch. More than 100 million of the familiar red rectangular drawing toys have been sold since 1960 when it was invented. The late 1990s‚ however‚ became a troubled time for the toy’s maker. Confronted with sluggish toy sales‚ the Ohio Art Company lost money for two years. In December 2000‚ it made the strategic decision to outsource production of the
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the eyes of some teenagers. What does a teenage party consist of? Well‚ it will usually take place in a house with no parental supervision‚ along with members of both sex‚ and a lot of alcohol. The teens may then engage in drinking games such as beer pong‚ flip cup‚ quarters‚ presidents and A-holes‚ to name a few. As time passes trouble begins. The girls may become more vulnerable to sexual activity than if they were sober. Some kids may become very sick and could possibly acquire alcohol poisoning
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The education system in the Dominican Republic needs to improve on a few things such as building classrooms‚ improving infrastructure‚ improve teacher training‚ provide more after school programs‚ increase the quality of public school education‚ and decrease the number of school dropouts. There are also students in the Dominican Republic of Haitian descent who are excluded since they are not provided citizenship in the country‚ and citizenship is crucial to continue an education in DR. The Dominican
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company John Jaques & Son were manufacturing the first table tennis sets and popularizing the game. They used rackets (bats/paddles) with velum stretched over an outer casing (similar to small drum) attached to a handle. This gave arise to the name Ping Pong which was derived from the sound that was made by different sized rackets striking the ball. Table Tennis is played on a hard table measuring: 9 feet (2.74m) long‚ 5 feet (1.525m) wide and 2 feet 6 inches (76cm) high and the net is: 6 feet (1.83m)
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A little boy quietly sits in front of a piano‚ with his fingers poised over the bright white keys. His teacher‚ seated beside him on the bench‚ plays a complicated series of chords‚ filling the air with a beautiful melody. After a single hearing‚ the boy begins to play‚ perfectly reproducing the song he had just heard. As the last notes fade away‚ the boy sits still for a moment and then begins to rock gently back and forth‚ only stopping once the music begins again A genius. A prodigy. One might
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The Marketing Plan: everyone will tell you that you absolutely have to have one. Few of the people who say that‚ however‚ are able to tell you what exactly a marketing plan consists of. Creating a marketing plan for your small business shouldn’t take you a few hours. Ideally‚ it should take you at least a few days to do the research and have the necessary discussions — potentially even a few weeks depending on factors like the size of your market and the uniqueness of your product line(s). The following
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at the Academy Awards‚ claimed a worldwide theatrical gross of $661 million through May of 1995. That amount excludes videocassette and soundtrack revenues‚ and it doesn’t include licensing fees of Forrest Gump products such as wristwatches‚ ping-pong paddles and shrimp cookbooks. Yet‚ according to Paramount Studios‚ the film project lost $56 million dollars on a box office gross of $382 million through December‚ 1994 (see Exhibit 1). Forrest Gump is the latest of a string of hit movies to report
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I. Introduction Divorce in the Philippines is planning to take over Filipino values and culture. It’s all over the news‚ the Philippine Congress is now pushing forward the Divorce Bill right after they have put forward the Reproductive Health Bill. This issue was brought up. And just as what they have stated‚ “RH Bill can also lead to the Divorce Bill” because they have the same proponents. We know lots of Evangelical Christians are pro-RH Bill. But what they don’t know is that the proponents
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1:8 http://www.ejnmmires.com/content/1/1/8 ORIGINAL RESEARCH Open Access Influence of dietary state and insulin on myocardial‚ skeletal muscle and brain [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose kinetics in mice Michael C Kreissl1‚2*‚ David B Stout3‚ Koon-Pong Wong1‚ Hsiao-Ming Wu1‚ Evren Caglayan4‚ Waldemar Ladno3‚ Xiaoli Zhang1‚ John O Prior1‚5‚ Christoph Reiners2‚ Sung-Cheng Huang1 and Heinrich R Schelbert1 Abstract Background: We evaluated the effect of insulin stimulation and dietary changes on
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