Kimball Group: Data Warehouse Training: Articles: Data Warehouse Fundamentals
Articles: Data Warehouse Fundamentals
Restating the foundations of data warehousing. To be read in chronological order.
A continuing series with more articles to appear in 2004.
Here’s the list from that page actually in chronological order –
- An Engineer’s View (7/26/2002)
- It’s worthwhile to remind ourselves why we build data warehouses
the way we do - Two Powerful Ideas< (9/17/2002)
- The foundations for modern data warehousing
- Divide and Conquer (10/30/2002)
- Build your data warehouse one piece at a time
- Fact Tables and Dimension Tables (1/1/2003)
- The logical foundation of dimensional modeling
- The Soul of the Data Warehouse, Part One: Drilling Down (3/20/2003)
- Drilling down just means ‘show me more detail’
- The Soul of the Data Warehouse, Part Two: Drilling Across (4/5/2003)
- Drilling across means asking for the same row headers from another fact table
- The Soul of the Data Warehouse, Part Three: Handling Time (4/22/2003)
- The data warehouse takes a pledge to preserve history
- TCO Starts With the End User (5/13/2003)
- The conventional view of data warehouse total cost of ownership is myopic and wrong
- Design Constraints and Unavoidable Realities (9/3/2002)
- No design problem in school was this hard