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Ralph Kimball and other Kimball Group members have written over 120 columns for Intelligent Enterprise Magazine and its predecessor, DBMS Magazine.


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Articles 2000
(All of the following articles are written by Ralph Kimball).

Is Your Data Correct?
Simple statistical techniques can help you ensure that users have accurate information at their fingertips
December 05, 2000

Fact Tables for Text Document Searching
Using a similarity metric as a measured fact
November 10, 2000

The Keyword Dimension
Using Keywords in a data warehouse of historical letters
October 20, 2000

Backward in Time
Stitching late-arriving records into an existing data warehouse
September 29, 2000

The Software Developer in Us
Data warehouse designers have a lot to learn from good, old-fashioned software developers
September 8, 2000

Enforcing the Rules
Most data warehouses do a poor job of supporting all business rules: We can do better
August 18, 2000

There Are No Guarantees
Entity-relation modeling is far from being a universal solution for data warehouse business rules
August 1, 2000

Watching the Watchers
It's time we added the term "privacy architecture" to our vocabularies
July 17, 2000

ERP Vendors: Bring Down Those Walls
ERP vendors need a more open, dynamic approach if they are to join the e-business paradigm
June 26, 2000

Welcoming the Packaged App
Make sure your packaged application is part of your data Webhouse
June 5, 2000

Is Your Dimensional Data Warehouse Expressive?
The final eight criteria for comparing your systems
May 15, 2000

Rating Your Dimensional Data Warehouse
The first twelve of the twenty criteria for comparing your systems
April 28, 2000

Indicators of Quality
Use your standard query tools to track data quality and lineage
April 10, 2000

Mystery Dimensions
Making sense of the rogue fields in your fact table
March 20, 2000

Digital Preservation
Keeping our warehouses for 50 years; embrittled documents
March 1, 2000

Many Alternate Realities
Describing the past accurately; slowly changing dimensions
February 9, 2000

The Special Dimensions of the ClickStream
The high leverage dimensions needed for a successful clickstream data mart
January 20, 2000

The Millenium Ahead
Comments on change enveloping us and some predictions
January 1, 2000


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