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Quick Date Dimension with Python

A simple date generator

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A small Python script to generate a date dimension for your data warehouse. Uses YYYYMMDD as an intelligent surrogate key.

Use with Python 2.7.x:

kiran@zeus:~$ python makedate.py
makedate.py -s<startyear> -n<numberofyears> -o<outputfilename>
 NOTE: output includes 19000101 record

kiran@zeus:~$ python makedate.py -s1900 -n5 -odate.csv
COMPLETED writing file date.csv

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