Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text are shown as follows: "DimGeography is not used to create a new dimension, but is being used to add geographic attributes to the Customer dimension."

A block of code will be set as follows:

CASE WHEN Weight IS NULL OR Weight<0 THEN 'N/A'
WHEN Weight<10 THEN '0-10Kg'
WHEN Weight<20 THEN '10-20Kg'
ELSE '20Kg or more'
END

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in our text like this: "You can set project properties by right-clicking on the Project node in the Solution Explorer pane and selecting Properties."