Zero records, time-variance and point-in-time selection
While finalising the posts for the overall Data Vault ETL implementation I have also started thinking about how to document the next steps: the loading patterns for the Presentation Layer. From here on I will refer to the Presentation Layer, Data Marts and Information Marts simply as ‘Information Marts’. This reminded me that I haven’t yet properly covered the ‘zero record’ concept. This is a timely consideration: the whole reason that zero records exist is to make the...