Dimensional Modelling by Example
Barry Williams,
Mar 21, 2018
This short book (132 page PDF) contains an overview of the concept of 'dimensional modeling' and then a ton of examples. You can find the origin of dimensional modelling in Ralph Kimball's 1997 Manifesto. "The data that can be measured are called the 'Facts' and they are stored with the things that can be measured by, which are called the the 'Dimensions'." These are also sometimes referred to as 'data marts'. The point here is to support 'self-service business intelligence (BI) where this is "a facility provided to end-users which allows them to select the data they want and the Dashboard or Report they would like to use to see their data displayed... without depending on IT."
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