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Data Warehouse Quality Management
Examines ways in which organizations can think about quality in the data warehouse environment,
as well as ideas for possible metrics to measure quality and extend warehouse
value.
- A Definition of Data Warehousing
Michael Reed of TechnologyEvaluation.Com gives a brief overview of the definition of a data warehouse.
- Developing a Data Warehouse Architecture
A data warehouse architecture is a description of the elements and services of the warehouse, with
details showing how the components will fit together and how the system will grow over time.
- Intelligent Enterprise Magazine
Offers both print and online-only articles, news and analysis focused on the business software
strategies that enable IT and business decision-makers to plan, build, manage and purchase
business critical enterprise applications.
- Teradata Review
Technical magazine for data warehouse professionals interested in NCR's Teradata database management
system.
- The Unity Dimension
Nick Galemmo's Intelligent Enterprise article that offers a modeling solution for when
differing entities share a role. (June 13, 2001)
- How to do a Warehouse Assessment (And Why)
Arthur Moore and David Wells. The essence of data warehousing assessment is directed at refining the
warehousing process and revitalizing the warehousing initiative. (August 1, 2000)
- Managing Meta Data Within and Across Warehousing Efforts
Many organizations must manage multiple warehousing initiatives underway simultaneously and these
systems will most likely be based on products from multiple data warehousing vendors, in the typical
decentralized approach of most corporations. (August 1, 2000)
- Refreshment Strategies in the Data Warehouse Environment
William Inmon. Once the data warehouse is built, attention shifts from the building of the data
warehouse to the day to day operations of making the data warehouse work. (August 1, 2000)
- Data Warehouse Delivery: How to Federate
DM Review article by Douglas Hackney that looks in more detail at how you build a federated BI
architecture. (June, 2000)
- 11 Steps to Successful Data Warehousing
Mining your corporate data for valuable customer information can improve your business performance.
But it's not as simple as it sounds. Database Advisor article by Phillip Blackwood. (May 31, 2000)
- Is Your Dimensional Data Warehouse Expressive?
Intelligent Enterprise Magazine article by Ralph Kimball completes the 20 criteria for rating your
dimensional data warehouse by adding 8 expression criteria. (May 15, 2000)
- Data Warehouse Delivery: When to Federate
DM Review article by Douglas Hackney discussing conditions that can merit a federated BI architecture. (May, 2000)
- 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 20 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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