<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Grain on Ivan Luminaria</title><link>https://ivanluminaria.com/en/tags/grain/</link><description>Recent content in Grain on Ivan Luminaria</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 08:03:00 +0100</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://ivanluminaria.com/en/tags/grain/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Wrong grain: when the fact table can't answer the right questions</title><link>https://ivanluminaria.com/en/posts/data-warehouse/fatto-grana-sbagliata/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 08:03:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://ivanluminaria.com/en/posts/data-warehouse/fatto-grana-sbagliata/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The meeting had started well. The sales director of an industrial distribution company — around sixty million in revenue, three thousand active customers, a catalog of twelve thousand SKUs — had opened the new data warehouse presentation with a smile. The numbers matched, the dashboards were polished, the monthly totals by agent and territory reconciled with accounting.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Then someone asked the wrong question. Or rather, the right one.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;ldquo;Can I see what customer Bianchi purchased in March, line by line, product by product?&amp;rdquo;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>