1. Assignment 1 Due Thursday Jan 19, 2006
Create a new database and use DTS to create product and customer dimensions using Northwind tables as your source.
Details:
Create your own copy of Northwind tables to use as source data
Use surrogate keys for the PK in each dimension (include this as an additional attribute)
The product dimension comprises all the data in products, suppliers and categories
Hand in a sheet with your name, userid, database name, package name/password(s), and specify the number of rows exist in each dimension.
Analyze the orders table and answer the following questions:
How many different date values appear? What is the smallest? What is the largest?
How many times does null occur for
Ordered date?
Required date?
Shipped date?
How many unique values are there for the composite: {ShipName, ShipAddress, ShipCity, ShipRegion, ShipPostalCode, ShipCountry}
Jan 2005
Ron McFadyen