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 ...

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 ...

Measurement of length along a single axis. A dimension is, for example, a width, a depth, and a height. Three dimensions (3D) are added to a square, while two dimensions (2D) are added to a cube. We ...