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Articles
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 by date
2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995
Articles 2002
The Promise of Decision Support
Analytic applications return to the original reason for the data warehouse
by Bill Schmarzo (edited by Ralph Kimball)
December 5, 2002
Designing the Financial Data Warehouse
Now that the finance function has knocked on your door, what's next?
by Dan Hughes (edited by Ralph Kimball)
November 15, 2002
Divide and Conquer
Build your data warehouse one piece at a time
by Ralph Kimball
October 30, 2002
Relating to OLAP
OLAP and ROLAP are a continuum, not competitors
by Joy Mundy (edited by Ralph Kimball)
October 8, 2002
Two Powerful Ideas
The foundations for modern data warehousing
by Ralph Kimball
September 17, 2002
Design Constraints and Unavoidable Realities
No design problem in school was this hard
by Ralph Kimball
September 3, 2002
What Changed?
Use a multivalued outrigger table to add expressive power to your dimensions
by Joe Caserta (edited by Ralph Kimball)
August 12, 2002
An Engineer's View
It's worthwhile to remind ourselves why we build data warehouses the way we do
by Ralph Kimball
July 26, 2002
The Finance Function Knocks at Your Door
Are you ready to take on the analytic needs of your finance people?
by Ken Jones (edited by Ralph Kimball)
June 28, 2002
Tricky Time Spans
The time dimension isn't nearly as simple as it looks
by Ralph Kimball
June 13, 2002
Prime Time for XML
Open up new application types with XML embedded in your relational databases
by Steve Tracy
May 28, 2002
Wrangling Behavior Tags
Behavior tags are true 'text facts.' How do we handle them in a data warehouse?
by Ralph Kimball
May 9, 2002
Behavior: The Next Marquee Application
It's time to start using more advanced analytics
by Ralph Kimball
April 16, 2002
Asymmetric Aggregation
What to do if your data mart isn't a shiny dimensional diamond
by Gabriel Tanase (Edited by Ralph Kimball)
March 28, 2002
Real-Life Data Mart Processing
Is your mart the symmetric 'information diamond' at the end of the data pipeline?
by Gabriel Tanase (edited by Ralph Kimball)
March 8, 2002
Doing the Work at Extract Time
Countering the minimalist approach
by Ralph Kimball
February 21, 2002
Realtime Partitions
Build a special extension of each fact table to complement your static data warehouse
by Ralph Kimball
February 1, 2002
The Anti-Architect
How not to design and roll out a data warehouse
by Ralph Kimball
January 14, 2002
Lost, Shrunken, And Collapsed
Why and how to create the three types of aggregates in a dimensional data warehouse
by Lawrence Corr (edited by Ralph Kimball)
January 1, 2002
