Re: Best practices for aggregate table design

From: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Best practices for aggregate table design
Date: 2015-10-10 01:19:04
Message-ID: 56186788.80606@hogranch.com
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On 10/9/2015 6:07 PM, Roxanne Reid-Bennett wrote:
> On 10/9/2015 3:16 PM, droberts wrote:
>> Thanks for everyone's help. Can anyone recommend a good book on
>> database modeling, around these 'cube' or aggregate concepts in
>> particular? I'm using Postgres but shouldn't matter too much I assume.
>
> Given the shift towards NoSQL for BI, and the age of the consultants,
> I don't know how much of a driver of design patterns the Kimball Group
> still is in the BI/Data warehouse space - but their blogs and books
> have been good fodder for thought for the modeling I've done.

actually, there've been numerous cases where NoSQL deployments never
worked right, and people reverted to SQL for reporting.

--
john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz

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