Data Warehousing:Best way to write SP?

I'm writing a set of queries designed to test the data quality of our data warehouse at the fact level. The intent is to ensure that there are no keys at the fact level that do not exist at the dimension level.

I'm dealing with 8 fact tables, 8 dimension tables and 9 keys. I'm currently doing:

SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT key)
FROM t_fact
WHERE key NOT IN
(
SELECT DISTINCT key FROM t_dimension
)

If I do one of those for each key-fact table combo, there are about 50 queries in total. Not every key exists in every fact table.

I'm a Stored Procedure novice. What is the best way to check all of the fact tables, aside from running 50 counts with subqueries? If I run the queries one fact table at a time, it will take about 30 minutes. I've tried to run one query per fact table, by counting all keys, and doing a subselect to each dimension table, but got misleading results.

Any tips will be greatly appreciated. Abandoning data warehousing isn't a current option!

MikeIn Oracle I would find missing keys like this:

SELECT key FROM t_fact
MINUS
SELECT key FROM t_dimension

BTW, why not use a foreign key constraint to ensure all fact keys are based on dimension keys?

Data Transpose - need help

Hi all,
Help me out, i am trying to get all values in Table A and insert into table B, i though of writing cursor. see endof the message

Table A:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[M_SCANNEDSURVEY_AP] (
[M_CustomerSurveyID] [bigint] NULL ,
[SurveyID] [bigint] NULL ,
[LoadStatus] [char] (3) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,
[1] [char] (3) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,
[2] [char] (3) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,
[3] [char] (3) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,
[4] [char] (3) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,
[5] [char] (3) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,
[6] [char] (3) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,
[7] [char] (3) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,
[8] [char] (3) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,
[9] [char] (3) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,
[10] [char] (3) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,
[11] [char] (3) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,
[12] [char] (3) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,
[DateSubmitted] [datetime] NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO

Table B:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[M_RESPONSE] (
[M_CustomerSurveyID] [bigint] NOT NULL ,
[SurveyID] [bigint] NOT NULL ,
[SeqNumber] [bigint] NOT NULL ,
[Response] [varchar] (255) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NOT NULL ,
[DateSubmitted] [datetime] NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO

I want to insert everything in table A to table B
M_CustomerSurveyID -> M_CustomerSurveyID
SurveyID -> SurveyID
I will hardcode insert 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 for sequence number
values of 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 -> Response
DateSubmitted -> DateSubmitted

Declare @.Count_Scan INT

BEGIN
-- Get the count of scanned data in scanned data table with LoadStatus = N
SELECT @.Count_Scan = COUNT(*) from M_SCANNEDSURVEY_APTEST where
LoadStatus = 'N'

IF @.Count_Scan > 0
BEGIN
DECLARE ScanData_Cursor CURSOR FOR
SELECT * FROM M_SCANNEDSURVEY_AP WHERE LoadStatus = 'N'
OPEN ScanData_Cursor
FETCH NEXT FROM ScanData_Cursor
While (@.@.Fetch_Status <> -1)
Begin
If (@.@.Fetch_Status = -2)
Begin
FETCH NEXT FROM ScanData_Cursor
Continue
End
CLOSE ScanData_Cursor
DEALLOCATE ScanData_Cursor
END

SET @.CountSuccess = 'Y'
ENDUse your script which created TableA to create TableB. Export data from TableA and import it to TableB.|||I want to do it automatically once in a day using dts, how can i insert the data into table B|||INSERT INTO TableB(Field1, Field2, Field3, ...)
SELECT Field1, Field2, Field3, ... FROM TableA|||And never use SELECT * in code...