Advice on a theoretical aspect

I will soon have to finish my diploma research paper and project. My project has to outline the efficiency of using the Oracle JDeveloper-OLAP combination in business analisys, in my case, building all sorts of reports for a company that handles renting automated coffee machines.
I need some theoretic advice, whether I planned my tables/dimensions right, because BI-Beans shows irrelevant data, you will see why.
The data I have is provided from the company itself. Let me describe the situation:
The company has offices in 6 states in Romania, each of these 6 states having several locations as entered in the table GEOGRAPHY (LOCATION, LOCATION_LLABEL, LOCATION_SLABEL, STATE, STATE_LLABEL, STATE_LLABEL, COUNTRY, COUNTRY_LLABEL, COUNTRY_SLABEL), all VARCHAR2(30), LOCATION being the PRIMARY_KEY.
Example:
INSERT INTO ... VALUES ('ARAD','ARAD','ARAD','JUD_ARAD','Judetul ARAD','AD','ROMANIA','Tara ROMANIA','RO'); INSERT INTO ... VALUES ('NADLAC','NADLAC','NADLAC','JUD_ARAD','Judetul ARAD','AD','ROMANIA','Tara ROMANIA','RO'); INSERT INTO ... VALUES ('BORS','BORS','BORS','JUD_BIHOR','Judetul BIHOR','BH','ROMANIA','Tara ROMANIA','RO');
Each of these 6 states has a number of clients, as described in the table CLIENT(CLIENT, CLIENT_LLABEL, CLIENT_SLABEL, LOCATION, ADDRESS, PHONE, CONTACT_PERSON, CONTRACT_DATE), CLIENT being the PRIMARY_KEY.
Example:
INSERT INTO ... VALUES ('BEN00093','LUKOIL CALEA NADLAC ARAD', 'LUKOIL', 'NADLAC', 'CENTURA NADLAC NR.55', '257/216555', 'DAN ACONI', '01-Jan-2003');
Each of these clients holds a number of coffee automated machines, as described in the table MACHINE(MACHINE_NO, TYPE, TYPE_LLABEL, TYPE_SLABEL, TOP, TOP_LLABEL, TOP_SLABEL, CLIENT, LOCATION), MACHINE_NO being the PRIMARY_KEY, CLIENT and LOCATION as FOREIGN_KEYs.
Example:
INSERT INTO ... VALUES ('15100231', 'COLIBRI', 'Model COLIBRI', 'CO', 'Machines', 'Coffee machines', 'Machines', 'BEN00093', 'NADLAC'); INSERT INTO ... VALUES ('15100234', 'COLIBRI', 'Model COLIBRI', 'CO', 'Machines', 'Coffee machines', 'Machines', 'BEN00066', 'ARAD');
Going back up to geographic thinking, each of the 6 states has a number of AGENTS handling by rotation any of the CLIENTS in the state (there is not a certain agent allocated to a specific client, they divide the work between themselves, sometimes one of them isn't working and the other fills in for him ...) The table AGENT(AGENT, AGENT_LLABEL, AGENT_SLABEL, STATE, STATE_LLABEL, STATE_SLABEL, COUNTRY, COUTRY_LLABEL, COUNTRY_SLABEL, PHONENO), having AGENT as the PRIMARY_KEY.
Example:
INSERT INTO ... VALUES ('AG007','SIRGHIE NICOLAE','Agent 007','JUD_ARAD','Agents in ARAD state','AD Agents','ROMANIA','Agents in ROMANIA','RO Agents','+40723211331');
I also have a table TIME(TIME_MONTH, TIME_MONTH_LLABEL, TIME_MONTH_SLABEL, TIME_QUARTER, TIME_QUARTER_LLABEL, TIME_QUARTER_SLABEL, TIME_YEAR, TIME_YEAR_LLABEL, TIME_YEAR_SLABEL, TIME_END_MONTH, TIME_END_QUARTER, TIME_END_YEAR, TIME_SPAN_MONTH, TIME_SPAN_QUARTER, TIME_SPAN_YEAR) with TIME_MONTH as the PRIMARY_KEY.
AND a table HOTDRINS(DRINK, DRINK_LLABEL, DRINK_SLABEL, TOP, TOP_LLABEL, TOP_SLABEL)
INSERT INTO ... VALUES ('cappucino', 'Cappucino', 'Capp', 'Drinks', 'Hot drinks', 'Drinks'); INSERT INTO ... VALUES ('cappfrvanilla', 'Cappucino French Vanilla', 'Capp Fr Vanilla', 'Drinks', 'Hot drinks', 'Drinks');
I created a fact table FAPTE(time_leaves, geography_leaves, machine_leaves, hotdrinks_leaves, client_leaves, agent_leaves, sold_quantity), all of them except sold_quantity being primary keys. The sold_quantity is computed from a separate FoxPro database used currently by the company. I threw in only the rows that matched some rellevant data, without zero's in the countless situations where a client wouldn't match the machine no. or the geography. It still resulted in 50.000 records. Here's an example:
INSERT INTO ... VALUES ('AUG03', 'ARAD', '24200429', 'cappucino', 'BEN00048', 'AG007', 145);
I created the dimensions accordingly to the tables, setting some obvious hierarchies in GEOGRAPHY,TIME,HOTDRINKS,MACHINES and CLIENTS, then the cube and the measure folder, refreshed the metadata and away I went in BI Beans.
BUT, my situation creates funny results in any crosstab or table, because of many nulls and the obligation to fit all the parameters rigt manually (setting the geography dimension to a certain city, selecting the right agents to match the city, the right client to match the city or the right machine to match the client ... and so on).
Questions:
1. What is the point of the GEOGRAPHY dimension taken separately when I have to put geographic hierarchical organisation in AGENT, CLIENT and MACHINES also?
2. Am I thinking this problem straight? I'm not sure whether I analyzed my problem in order to give the optimal solution. I'm thinking of setting a single dimension that would include all GEOGRAPHY, CLIENTS and MACHINES together, setting a hierarchy like Country-> State-> Location-> Client-> Machines. But then I should go up again to involve geographic thinking again and set a dimension for AGENTS with a hierarchy like Country->State->Agents.
3. Isn't there a possibility to go inside the code for the BIBeans query and set a more specific query, with the aid of some variables. Let's say I set the values for the geography dimension, can't I save the setting in a variable and refine my query upon clients based only on that geographic area?
4. Isn't there a possibility for BIBeans to exclude the all null lines in a table or crosstab?
Hoping you will find some time to see this, I thank you for your attention.
Best regards,
Ana

There are so many possibilities and with various pros and cons.
I am very happy using image software (I use ShadowProtect) to backup my OS/programs drive and a directory comparison tool (I strongly endorse Beyond Compare) to backup all of my data drives.
Why?
- third party Win7/8 imaging tools are very fast and do a good job of allowing you to restore to a different size / type of drive in the event of a failure (i.e. 128GB SSD to 250GB hard drive); Windows has a built in backup tool but it is neither flexible or fail proof from what I've heard
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Jim

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recently I've ran into some problems with Final Cut Express 4.0:
my original video material (shot on a Kodak Zi8) is HD 1080p, and has a resolution of 1920x1080, so it's 16:9.
The first question is about the resolution: obviously, I want to keep the high quality of the video, however, the only setting of the "easy configuration" (sorry, translating from the German program here) that comes close to the original resolution is the "Apple Intermediate Codec 1080i60", and it only features 1440x1080. Am I doing a mistake when selecting this one and is my video material scaled down already then? Is there a more appropriate setting?
Second part of the question, which I guess is a direct result of the first part: I've tried to export the video for Youtube in H.264 and various different settings, and I never seem to be able to accomplish a true 16:9 video as the end result. I always have black bars left and right of the picture (see here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFM3TAbvObw). If I try to apply a 16:9 resolution myself (by taking the width and multiplying it with 1,78) I end up with a faultily scaled (flat) picture.
Any suggestions are very much appreciated,
thanks in advance!

recently I've ran into some problems with Final Cut Express 4.0:
When you update to the free FCE 4.0.1 FCE from Software update 1920x1080 codecs are available.
See how they go with your camera. Most still cameras have problems capturing directly to FCE as there codecs are non standard.
Fingers crossede.
Al

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