Looking at examples in Adventure Works and the Kimball equivalent client
dimensions are at an individual account level.  How realistic is this for
very large account dimensions on order of 30 - 50 million accounts?  
Obviously this was not feasible in the 2000 AS version.  Thanks.

Dear friends,
I have a database with simple stucture and tasks but big data sizes (23M
rec, 35G data file).
Most of my data are static and I dn't need transaction facilities. so I  set

Please advise whether SQL 2005 has the smiliar function as belows:
Materialized View in Oracle
Materialized Query Tables in DB2
Thank you.

After generating a Cube Model (model from an OLAP source) from either Reporting Services or SSMS - is there any way to modify the model and re-deploy?  It appears there is not - as there are ways for OLTP data sources.

We're considering creating a data warehouse with either SQL Server 2000
(which we have now) or SQL Server 2005 (which we hope to go to at some point
in the future). Currently, we have a MSSQL 2k server running with around 20 -
30 separate databases.

We have successfully generated a Report Model against a Cube data source.  My question is I can't seem to figure out how to modify the model.  The wizard organized and named entities in an odd way - and even finding the measures is in some obscure place.  I know how to create ...

I'm familiar with direct-path-loads and SQL*Loader on Oracle.
Does anyone know if sth like this is available on SQL-Server?

We are in the middle of creating a dataware house. In the current
model we have several hot-swappable (sub)dimensions which is linked to
a large dimension table. All dimensions are type 2. I don't think that
this is correct because when the data in the sub-dimension is changing