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October 2, 2020

2020 CIP Codes Load Into EDW

On Tuesday, October 6, 2020, the new 2020 CIP Series will be loaded into the Enterprise Data Warehouse. This affects any table that contains CIPKeyId. The tables that contain CIP code reference data are dimCIPCurrent and CIPAcademicYear in EDWPresentation. What is included in CIP code updates? Part 1: CIP codes with descriptions from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Part 2: Federal STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) indicator provided by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This indicator is updated at irregular intervals. The most current data is from 2016. Part 3: Washington State STEM indicators provided by the...

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August 21, 2020

Spend Financial Data Now Available in EDW

In October of 2018, in partnership with the Financial Data Group, the UW-IT Information Management team completed the capture of all suppliers from the University’s Procurement Accounting System (PAS) in the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW). The next step in securing PAS data focused on the Spend financials and Diversity indicators for those suppliers. With access to PAS Supplier, Spend and Diversity Data, campus departments can get information to help them evaluate, manage and plan their financial expenditures as well as meet all their Federal reporting requirements. How Can You Use PAS Data? To answer questions like: In the calendar year...

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May 3, 2020

UWSDBDataStore Reorg on June 6, 2020

The student database (SDB) will go through a reorganization on June 6, 2020 which will cause changes in the Enterprise Data Warehouse database, UWSDBDataStore. These changes to the objects will be available in the UWSDBDataStore on Monday, June 8, 2020. However, data on the new objects will be available as soon as the Data Custodians submit the  security role definitions and the SIS team loads the data. (last modified: 6.04.2020) *Please Note:The scope listed below isn't final until 1 week before the reorg. Please continuously monitor this site for the most current update. New columns to be added Table Name...

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April 15, 2020

The Newest Addition to the EDW: Time Travel with dimTime

If you work with time data, a new reference table in the EDW makes it easier than ever to manipulate time in your SQL query. What is it? The new dimTime table has a row for each minute of the day for a total of 1,440 records. Each "minute record" has details including: a minute key a cleaned up and normalized minute field the minute record rounded up or down the quarter-hour, half-hour, and hour AM/PM Indicators See for yourself: --Server: edwpub.s.uw.edu DECLARE @startTime time = '11:19' SELECT timekey , StandardTime , RoundDownQtrHour , RoundUpQtrHour , RoundDownHalfHour , RoundUpHalfHour ,...

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January 17, 2020

EDW Payroll data will include NWH and UWP employees

As part of the Enterprise Data Warehouse's support for the Northwest Hospital Integration effort, beginning with the next payroll, pay period Jan 1-15, the EDW payroll data will include the Northwest Hospital (NWH) and UW Physicians (UWP) employees who are all now UW employees as of the beginning of 2020. If you have any questions or concerns, please email help@uw.edu with the subject line "EDW question regarding NWH cutover" so we can promptly assist you.

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January 7, 2020

Column Change: EarnType in BudgetActivityDetail

The Change The length for column EarnType (description) in the BudgetActivityDetail table has been increased from a varchar(25) to a varchar(255). This change will occur in the following ODS tables: BudgetActivityDetail BudgetActivityDetail2Bien BudgetActivityDetailCurrentBiennium BudgetActivityDetailCurrentBienniumMinus1 BudgetActivityDetailCurrentBienniumMinus2 BudgetActivityDetailCurrentBienniumMinus3 BudgetActivityDetailCurrentBienniumMinus4 BudgetActivityDetailCurrentBienniumMinus5 BudgetActivityDetailCurrentBienniumMinus6 BudgetActivityDetailCurrentBienniumMinus7 How will this affect me? If you query the tables directly, you may be affected. If you use the BI Portal, you will not be affected. This change will appear in the ODS on Monday, February 4th. Questions and Concerns If you have any questions or concerns, please write help@uw.edu and put “Column Change: EarnType in BudgetActivityDetail” in the subject...

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January 7, 2020

UWSDBDataStore Reorg on February 1, 2020

Hello, The student database (SDB) will go through a reorganization on February 1, 2020 which will cause changes in the Enterprise Data Warehouse database, UWSDBDataStore. These changes to the objects will be available in the UWSDBDataStore on Monday, February 3, 2020. (However, data on the new objects will be available as soon as the Data Custodians submit the  security role definitions and the SIS team loads the data.) * (last modified: 2.1.2020) New columns to be added:  Table Name Column Name Data Type Description  budget_resources br_bgt_code_calc char(2) Budget code calculated by budget calc library, P404 dl_origination dl_ibc_comp_flg char(1) Informed Borrower...

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December 23, 2019

EDW HR/Payroll data will be paused 12/27-12/28 to support Northwest Hospital Cutover

Between December 26-29, 2019, Northwest Hospital and UW Physicians employees will be integrated into Workday. During this transition period, employee data from Workday may not be complete. Therefore the EDW will proactively pause daily HR/Payroll data updates until the fully integrated employee data is available. The last EDW HR/P daily load before the pause will be on the morning of Thursday, December 26, 2019. We plan to resume daily updates the morning of Sunday, December 29, 2019. HR/P data will continue to be available from the EDW during this timeframe; it will just remain static. Affected databases are: HumanResources ODS...

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November 25, 2019

Table Reorg for the UWSDBDataStore Curriculum Management objects on December 16, 2019

Hello, The Curriculum Management tables in UWSDBDataStore will have some changes on Dec. 16, 2019. These changes to the objects (listed below) will be available in the UWSDBDataStore on Dec 17, 2019 . However, data on the new objects will be visible as soon as the Data Custodians submit the security role definitions. (last updated: 11.25.2019) New columns to be added:  Table Name Column Name Data Type  CM_Programs CIPCode_title nvarchar(300) program_dateEndLabel varchar(25) CM_Credentials   credential_dateEndLabel varchar(25) CIPCode_title nvarchar(300) stemCIP varchar(10) alt_thesis_requirement varchar(100) Existing columns to be deleted:  Table Name Column Name  CM_Programs Program_Status CM_Credentials credential_Status Please Note: The scope of...

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October 28, 2019

EDW & EWS Data Changes Coming to Support Northwest Hospital (NWH) and UW Physicians (UWP)

This is a heads up on upcoming changes to both the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) and Enterprise Web Services (EWS).   As you may be aware, UW Medicine is currently in the process of consolidating activities across two of its major entities:  Northwest Hospital (NWH) will become a second campus of the University of Washington Medical Center (UWMC) UW Physicians (UWP) staff will become part of the UW Medicine Health System (UWMHS) supervisory org structure in Workday and part of the School of Medicine otherwise A major component of this consolidation effort includes integration of ~2600 NWH and UWP employees...

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