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| This page is a catch-all for some useful items from the book or other places. If
you have a useful item you are willing to share, send it to us and we'll post it on the
lifecycle-toolkit web site.
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| Project Plan This is the combined project plan including all the tasks from the end of each chapter. The Plan is found in the \other directory as follows:
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| Data Model and Database Naming Standards Stanford University was kind enough to allow us to include this set of documents. They are not specific to data warehousing, but most of the principles apply, and some of the class words, abbreviations and so on are great places to start. Stanford retains the rights to these documents. Data Model Naming Standards (\other\nmngcnv\modelstd\namest.htm) DBA Database Naming Standards (\other\nmngcnv\dbstnds\naming.htm) Note that these pages are directly from their web site and do not comply
with the 8-character file name limitation. If you can't see them in your
browser, you might visit Stanford's site directly at the following URLs:
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| Period Table source file Chapters 5 and 15 both discuss the Period (or Time) table as one you will likely create in the warehouse rather than source it from somewhere else. This spreadsheet includes most of the standard elements of a core Period table. It also demonstrates the SQL insert string generation trick we described in Chapter 15. WARNING: These are big files. It's probably best to copy them off the CD onto your hard disk and open them from there. These can be found in the /Other directory.
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| Microsoft Utilities The following three executable files are in the \Other directory. The file names are listed below. PowerPoint Viewer (ppview97.exe) http://www.microsoft.com/powerpoint/internet/viewer/viewer32.htm Word Viewer (wd97vr32.exe) Excel Viewer (Viewer.exe) http://www.microsoft.com/excel/internet/viewer/
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