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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 2001
Clickstream Data Mart
It's part of the 360-degree customer view. It's being requested more.
Are you ready?
by Joe Caserta (edited by Ralph Kimball)
December 5, 2001

Catastrophic Failure
Know the threats to your mission-critical data warehouse and how
to defend against them
by Ralph Kimball
November 12, 2001

What Not to Do
Dimensional modeling mistakes to guard against
by Ralph Kimball
October 24, 2001

Aggregate Improvements
Are you taking full advantage of the ability to presummarize your data?
by Lawrence Corr (edited by Ralph Kimball)
October 4, 2001

Managing Your Parents
Parent-child source databases are modeled in a consistent way
in a dimensional data warehouse
by Ralph Kimball
September 18, 2001

Brace for Incoming
Importing external data deserves its own full design and development
life cycle
by Warren Thornthwaite (edited by Ralph Kimball)
August 31, 2001

Managing Helper Tables
A careful look at many-to-many relationships between important dimensions
by Ralph Kimball
August 10, 2001

Back to Basics
Data warehouse consultants need to bone up on the soft side (and hard facts) of business
by Michael Venerable (edited by Ralph Kimball)
July 23, 2001

A Trio of Interesting Snowflakes
Beat three common modeling challenges with extensions of the dimensional model
by Ralph Kimball
June 29, 2001

The Unity Dimension
A saner solution for when differing entites share a role
by Nick Galemmo (edited by Ralph Kimball)
June 13, 2001

Joint Effort
Administer the distributed data warehouse correctly or lose it!
by Ralph Kimball
May 24, 2001

Getting Started and Finishing Well
A well-defined process for data warehouse projects brings business value and project success
by Peter Nolan (edited by Ralph Kimball)
May 7, 2001

XML Will Make It Easier
Data integration and reuse possibilities are wide open but not yet very well realized
by Ralph Kimball
April 16, 2001

Close the Loop
Integrate your warehouse with your operational systems before you are overrun
by Steve Tracy (edited by Ralph Kimball)
March 27, 2001

Adjust Your Thinking for SANs
Storage area networks offer interesting advantages to the data warehouse
by Ralph Kimball
March 8, 2001

Smarter Data Warehouses
We need a better analytic language than SQL
by Joy Mundy (edited by Ralph Kimball)
February 16, 2001

Address Space
Turn your data warehouse into a geographic information system
by Ralph Kimball
January 30, 2001

Spatial Enabling Your Data Warehouse
Ralph goes to mapObjects basic training
by Ralph Kimball
January 01, 2001