Rating Your Dimensional Data Warehouse Intelligent Enterprise Magazine article by Ralph Kimball that explains the first 12 of twenty criteria for comparing data webhouses. http://www.intelligententerprise.com/000428/webhouse.shtml

Is Your Dimensional Data Warehouse Expressive? Intelligent Enterprise Magazine article by Ralph Kimball completes the 20 criteria for rating your dimensional data warehouse by adding 8 expression criteria. http://www.intelligententerprise.com/000515/webhouse.shtml

Factless Fact Tables DBMS Online article by Ralph Kimball discussing two types of useful fact tables that contain no facts at all. http://www.dbmsmag.com/9609d05.html

The Problem with Dimensional Modeling Bill Inmon's DM Review article discussing dimensional modeling. http://www.dmreview.com/master.cfm?NavID=55&EdID=2184

Surrogate Keys DBMS Online article by Ralph Kimball about keeping control over record identifiers by generating new keys for the data. http://www.dbmsmag.com/9805d05.html

Monster Dimensions DBMS Online article by Ralph Kimball discussing design solutions for handling changes in very large dimensions. http://www.dbmsmag.com/9605d05.html

Managing Meta Data Within and Across Warehousing Efforts Many organizations must manage multiple warehousing initiatives underway simultaneously and these systems will most likely be based on products from multiple data warehousing vendors, in the typical decentralized approach of most corporations. http://www.tdan.com/i013hy02.htm

How to do a Warehouse Assessment (And Why) Arthur Moore and David Wells. The essence of data warehousing assessment is directed at refining the warehousing process and revitalizing the warehousing initiative. http://www.tdan.com/i013fe03.htm

Many Alternate Realities Intelligent Enterprise Magazine article by Ralph Kimball on the data warehouse design challenge of describing the past accurately. http://www.intelligententerprise.com/000209/webhouse.shtml

Data Security: Protecting the Warehouse from Within DM Direct article by Chris Silbernagel that outlines some of the primary issues and decision points of implementing a relational on-line analytical processing data warehouse with data security. http://www.dmreview.com/master.cfm?NavID=198&EdID=780

Data Warehouse Delivery: The Federated Future DM Review article by Douglas Hackney that addresses federated data warehouse architecture. http://dmreview.com/master.cfm?NavID=55&EdID=1761

The Federated Data Warehouse DM Review article by Colin White about federated data warehouses. http://dmreview.com/master.cfm?NavID=198&EdID=1953

Data Warehouse Delivery: Federated FAQs DM Review article by Douglas Hackney with some frequently asked questions about federated data warehouses. http://www.dmreview.com/master.cfm?NavID=55&EdID=2077

11 Steps to Successful Data Warehousing Mining your corporate data for valuable customer information can improve your business performance. But it's not as simple as it sounds. Database Advisor article by Phillip Blackwood. http://www.advisor.com/Articles.nsf/aid/BLACP01

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Data Warehouse Delivery: When to Federate DM Review article by Douglas Hackney discussing conditions that can merit a federated BI architecture. http://dmreview.com/master.cfm?NavID=55&EdID=2185

Data Warehouse Delivery: How to Federate DM Review article by Douglas Hackney that looks in more detail at how you build a federated BI architecture. http://www.dmreview.com/master.cfm?NavID=55&EdID=2276

Data Mart Does Not Equal Data Warehouse Bill Inmon article originally published in DM Review about the differences between a data mart and a data warehouse. http://www.dmreview.com/master.cfm?NavID=55&EdID=1675

Help for Hierarchies Ralph Kimball article from DBMS Online discussing how to use helper tables to handle dimensions with complex hierarchies. http://www.dbmsmag.com/9809d05.html

The Unity Dimension Nick Galemmo's Intelligent Enterprise article that offers a modeling solution for when differing entities share a role. http://www.intelligententerprise.com/010613/warehouse1_1.shtml