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Data Warehousing
As businesses collect ever-increasing amounts of data, data warehousing has become a critical component in managing and analyzing data. Cloud-based data warehousing provides a flexible and cost-effective solution for building systems that support data analytics as well as reporting. Here, we’ll explore the fundamental concepts of data warehousing, as well as the different approaches to designing a data warehouse.
We will start by discussing the two main approaches to data warehousing: the normalized approach by Bill Inmon (Inmon, William H. (1992). Building the Data Warehouse. Boston: QED Technical Pub. Group. ISBN 0-89435-404-3. OCLC 24846118) and the dimensional approach by Ralph Kimball (Ralph Kimball and Margy Ross (
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