Eric called in and we chatted over the phone. I got on his branch and started looking over some of the new code. I spent most of my time on the database updates. Looking over some of the new code for customer loyalty points and some new rules. Eric is getting ready to add three new rules... They are exclude customer types, program end date, and exclude in-line discounts.

Towards the end of the meeting, we switched gears and started to talk about data warehousing and deep aggregated totals and report optimization. Eric started talking about dimensional mapping or a dimensional schema (star schema or data cube - intersection of points to a specific fact table) - 3d data modeling. Eric and Steve started getting into the quick and dirty of what Steve is working on. Super cool custom mini projects working on pulling in daily sales totals.