Discussions

Q1)  What are some ways you've tried to improve your creative abilities in the past?

What are some new ways you may want to implement now?

Q2)  Apply one of the four techniques for defining a real problem to a previously identified problem.

Explain why you chose this particular technique.

Q3)  The Star Schema is commonly used to model business processes. Discuss why the de-normalized schema is useful in developing the model that will eventually become the data warehouse. 

Q4)  One of the pioneers of the Data Warehouse environment, Bill Immon, describes the characteristics of the Data Warehouse as being Subjected Oriented, Integrated, Nonvolatile and Time Variant. Describe each of the characteristics.