If a significant proportion of queries look at more than one of the aggregated values, store all these aggregations within the same summary table. This will speed up a larger percentage of queries, at the cost of slightly affecting the performance of queries that look at only a single aggregation. Every column added will affect the performance of queries. As a guideline, I would suggest that you add no more than a handful of aggregated columns. The precise determination has more to do with the size of the columns than with the number, because that will determine the scan-time performance. It is good practice to calculate the achievable query performance if you intend to substantially increase the row size of the summary table. Finally, always bear in mind that you may be aggregating a number of dimensions into the same table, which will exacerbate the problem.

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When it comes to data warehousing, there are as many different tools as there are people to use them. Each tool has its own strengths and weaknesses, but also each tool is generally designed for a specific purpose. No one tool will do everything; certainly it will not do everything well. The usage of tools in a data warehouse can be from three broad categories - data dipping, data mining and data analysis. More on these tools later.

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Being a data warehouse manager, I though I’d share the responsibilities given to a Data Warehouse Manager, with the readers of my blog. The data warehouse manager is mainly responsible for creating and maintaining the indexes on the fact and dimension data and on the aggregations. The indexes on the fact data will need to be created as soon as the data load completes. Likewise, the indexes on the aggregations will need to be created as soon as a new aggregation is built.