Oracle-L: RE: Manager decrees "his" data warehouse design. Help!

From: Deshpande, Kirti <kirti.deshpande_at_verizon.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 07:18:27 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00419BF4.20020227071827@fatcity.com>

Buy him the 'Oracle8i For Dummies' as your departing gift, and suggest that he does this himself...
Heck, if he can "design" it, let him have the privilege of "building" it as well :)

Good Luck...

Kirti

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Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 1:48 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

I've lost patience, my temper, and I'm about to quit a job because the IT
manager has decreed that we will have "his" data warehouse running within
24 hours, and we will use his design.

1 - We are NOT to use any kind of views, not even materailzed views. 2 - we are not to do any computations, summaries or rollups 3 - we are to have everything in one table 4 - "the" table name and column names will be meaningful to any clerk 5 - we are not to "start" or "snowflake" designs. "That's just a bunch of
high power talk."
6 - all users will be trained to use MS Access to get at "their" data. (These are users that were just converted off from "green screen"

teminals within the last 45-days, to Windows 98 with 64k RAM.) 7 - We are not to just copy the legacy transactions. 8 - We are to load into "an" Oracle table, all legacy transction data because "we don't want to limit how or what a user will look at" 9 - It is not necessary to talk with the users to see what data they want to look at, or the atomic level. "They are smart enough to fighure this

out on their own. We just need to provide them the data." 10 - There shall be no long term maintenance required by "the" dw.

Any ideas on how to deal with this situation?

For tomorrow, I've done a CTAS from a materialized view that we created to
support one departments known requirements.

Don

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