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Anonymous
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Multi dimensional schema

Hello,

I am getting more and more confused after more than one week of research on what would be the best schema for the attached report. This doesn't seem like a typical star schema with fact and dim tables (even though I named them like that).

 

Background:
I want to understand which employees can work with which customers. This will allow me to better understand where I have skill gaps from the skills and regions perspective.

Each employee has a skill assigned and each customer has a PMV type assigned. There is also a mapping table showing which PMVs can be covered by which skills.

 

Data:
fact Employees - list of employees, their skills and cities where they are based
fact Customers - list of customers, their pmvs and cities where they are based
dim Skills - mapping of _SkillKey with the Skill name
dim Regions - mapping of _RegionKey with Region name
dim PMV Skill Mapping - mapping allowing to understand which skills can cover which pmvs (and other way round)
dim PMV - mapping of _PMVKey and PMV Type
dim MasterMap - table appended in PQ to get an ultimate view of all the locations (customers & cities)

 

Ideally I would like to understand things like:
A) where are based customers/employees with certain skill/pmv (selected from the filter)
B) what is the ratio (# of customers per engineer) for each skill/pmv


My biggest struggle is how to design a data model that will help to answer these questions... when I get it to work for A) it will not work for B) and another way round..

Any feedback is much appreciated!

 

thanks!

 

PBIX 

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Anonymous
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Hi @Anonymous ,

Please provide some data and expected output.

 

Best Regards

Community Support Team _ Polly

 

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

 

lbendlin
Super User
Super User

You're spot on. Power BI is not OLAP.   You can emulate some of the features with inactive relationships, USERELATIONSHIP() and/or CROSSFILTER()  but you may also want to explore using separate data models for these separate business questions.  Or go back to SSAS 🙂

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