Naïve approaches to business intelligence will occasionally trap designers as they juggle operational data stores and data warehouses. The trap results from an honest endeavor to simplify designs and ...

In a data warehouse, one side of the dimensional model set up for the department or organization. For example, the product dimension would be a list of the organization's products, the time dimension ...

Many businesses seem to believe that dimension tables and reference tables are indistinguishable objects. Apparently, the only difference worthy of note seems to be altering the object’s name from ...