Entries from The Data Warehouse Insider tagged with 'Data Model'

A follow up on "why does ETL take so long"

I got this comment from Oliver on the ETL posting: "in my opinion coding or modelling the etl-process is not the most time consuming part of building a data warehouse. The most time is spent on consolidating the dimensions and...

What is going on in the BI/DW world?

Well, lots of fun things as I got to experience in the BI/DW panel at ODTUG. There were some interesting questions from both the audience and Mark (Rittman that is…). The folks on the panel were Michael Armstrong-Smith, Mike Durran...

More on Total Recall for the DW - Use "AS OF" to publish data

After writing the post on the ETL part I was talking to folks over here and we discussed some other interesting aspects of using time windows and "AS OF" query patterns with ETL like scenarios. The scenario goes a little...

Oracle Releases Industry Data Models

There is a lot of interesting news coming out of Oracle these days... And while the sun is shining here in California there are interesting things going on. We just made the first in a series of industry data models...