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Title: Best practice: what layer is the best to maintain Query Item names?
Post by: Alp on 10 Jul 2010 10:22:39 PM
I am aware of 3 layer modeling best practices techniques.
Assuming that 1st layer (import view) is to maintain joins, my "common sense" tells me that the second layer would be a good place to maintain query subject/items names, what to hide and what to show.

Ideally, I would like to have a single master Query Subject that I could maintain Query Items in for all the copies. When snowflake grows to hundreds of query subjects/shortcuts maintenance becomes critical issue.

Any thoughts?
- Alp

Title: Re: Best practice: what layer is the best to maintain Query Item names?
Post by: blom0344 on 11 Jul 2010 11:04:30 AM
1st layer: will be hidden in the package definition, so no use naming here
3rd layer: consists of shortcuts which cannot be changed (only parent can)

Which leaves the 2nd layer  ;D
Title: Re: Best practice: what layer is the best to maintain Query Item names?
Post by: Alp on 11 Jul 2010 01:24:44 PM
Quote from: blom0344 on 11 Jul 2010 11:04:30 AM
1st layer: will be hidden in the package definition, so no use naming here
3rd layer: consists of shortcuts which cannot be changed (only parent can)

Which leaves the 2nd layer  ;D

Let us say we have T1 and T2 in the import view, and there is a join between them.
How do we move/copy T1 and T2 to 2nd layer such way that the relationship is left on the 1st layer only?
Relationship shortcut?

Title: Re: Best practice: what layer is the best to maintain Query Item names?
Post by: Alp on 11 Jul 2010 07:01:29 PM
I think I got it now. I might have screwed something else somewhere so I thought that new query subject in a new folder would not reuse the relationship from the underlying query subjects.

Thanks everyone!
- Alp