At the last meetup I learnt that many people don’t know how to build a business vault satellite (or even that it exists!). Many are struggling to get the data into a Raw Data Vault. Persisting data from the source over time. On the market are a few solutions, which build Data Vaults nearly automatically. […]

There was quite some noise, when I published last year my blog post about Universal Loading Pattern, a common view how to process data to any target. Be it a Data Vault Hub or a Fact table. Since then I have worked with this pattern happily without any incidents. Some time ago I thought, well, […]

As the amount of objects in my data warehouse is increasing, structuring them became an important topic. The goal is, that also new employees will grasp the content immediately. There are different naming conventions on the internet, but they usually just tell about prefixing objects. This is probably the easy part. How about structuring hubs […]

When I started to learn and work with Data Vault, I encountered the brilliance of hubs. It has taken me some time to adapt to the idea, that a hub can be loaded from more than 1 source system – if the Business Keys are well defined. Then I got my training and I still see […]

Again, a technical topic for SQL Server. At the beginning as an analyst you are going to learn to write standard SQL queries to get your desired results. With time your skills evolve, and you learn how to optimize the queries, maybe using a temporary table or a common table expression. The more you learn, […]

How many times did you hear in the last few years the words “Data Lake”? And how many times have you asked yourself how it should be organized? And how often did you ask Google for more information and didn’t get any valuable results and only funky buzzwords? I did a lot and found not […]

The best invention in my Business Intelligence career is the adoption of the concept of having a LoadDate. This should be a post to give credit to Dan Linstedt and thank him for inventing Data Vault and introducing LoadDate. When I encountered the hub-and-spoke concept of Data Vault I thought, why on earth do I […]

The unprepared From my background as an accountant and controller I had by nature a good feeling for numbers. This helped me to understand, how to structure data. A couple of years ago when I started to work in a startup, I usually grabbed data directly from source systems to support our cause to tackle […]