Inmon versus Kimball

[johnherman]

This link is to an article comparing the Corporate Information Factory (Inmon) approach with the Dimensional Bus Architecture (Kimball) approach to data warehousing.

http://www.intelligententerprise.co...ehousing/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17800088

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[Elsebet]

Good read, thank you for posting.

While I tend to agree with the author, keep in mind this was written by the president of the Kimball Group and thus isn't a wholly unbiased review.

 

[monsky]

If you are into dimensional modeling you might want to read some articles by Neil Raden. His website is:

http://www.hiredbrains.com/