title: Setting up Dim and Fact tables for a Data Warehouse
body: <p>I'm tasked with creating a datawarehouse for a client.  The tables involved don't really follow the traditional examples out there (product/orders), so I need some help getting started.  The client is essentially a processing center for cases (similar to a legal case).  Each day, new cases are entered into the DB under the "cases" table.  Each column contains some bit of info related to the case.  As the case is being processed, additional one-to-many tables are populated with events related to the case. There are quite a few of these event tables, example tables might be: (case-open, case-dept1, case-dept2, case-dept3, etc.). Each of these tables has a caseid which maps back to the "cases" table.  There are also a few lookup tables involved as well.</p>
  
  <p>Currently, the reporting needs relate to exposing bottlenecks in the various stages and the granularity is at the hour level for certain areas of the process.  </p>
  
  <p>I may be asking too much here, but I'm looking for some direction as to how I should setup my Dim and Fact tables or any other suggestions you might have.</p>