The Problem with Dimensional Modeling
Bill Inmon's DM Review article discussing dimensional modeling. (May, 2000)
Rating Your Dimensional Data Warehouse
Intelligent Enterprise Magazine article by Ralph Kimball that explains the first 12 of twenty criteria for comparing data webhouses. (April 28, 2000)
Data Warehouse Delivery: Federated FAQs
DM Review article by Douglas Hackney with some frequently asked questions about federated data warehouses. (April, 2000)
The Federated Data Warehouse
DM Review article by Colin White about federated data warehouses. (March, 2000)
Many Alternate Realities
Intelligent Enterprise Magazine article by Ralph Kimball on the data warehouse design challenge of describing the past accurately. (February 9, 2000)
Data Warehouse Delivery: The Federated Future
DM Review article by Douglas Hackney that addresses federated data warehouse architecture. (January, 2000)
Data Security: Protecting the Warehouse from Within
DM Direct article by Chris Silbernagel that outlines some of the primary issues and decision points of implementing a relational on-line analytical processing data warehouse with data security. (July, 1999)
Help for Hierarchies
Ralph Kimball article from DBMS Online discussing how to use helper tables to handle dimensions with complex hierarchies. (September, 1998)
Data Mart Does Not Equal Data Warehouse
Bill Inmon article originally published in DM Review about the differences between a data mart and a data warehouse. (May, 1998)
Surrogate Keys
DBMS Online article by Ralph Kimball about keeping control over record identifiers by generating new keys for the data. (May, 1998)
Factless Fact Tables
DBMS Online article by Ralph Kimball discussing two types of useful fact tables that contain no facts at all. (September, 1996)
Monster Dimensions
DBMS Online article by Ralph Kimball discussing design solutions for handling changes in very large dimensions. (May, 1996)
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